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TIL that pigs will consume human waste and Pig Toilets exist.

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D1LDr TIL that in 1998 the British soap Coronation Street debuted Hayley Patterson, who was the UK's first transgender soap character, and her storylines are given partial credit for the UK's 2004 Gender Recognition Act
yQwxM TIL there is a Mummified head of a 17th Century Saint on display in a church in Ireland. Catholic relics are an interesting topic to delve into.
OGEb7 TIL that The Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t get life insurance before their mission, so they came up with a brilliant hack: they signed hundreds of autographs. These "insurance autographs" were given to their families, who could sell them if the mission ended in tragedy.
m150o TIL the song "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from the 1964 movie Mary Poppins was written by the Sherman brothers. They were sued by songwriters who had written a prior song by the same name. The brothers won; however, it was discovered that the word was used earlier in 1931.
YexB TIL four out of every five animals on Earth is a nematode