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TIL that the world uses 27,000 trees worth of toilet paper every day.

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x9kk TIL the Yezidis/Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking minority who follow pre-Islamic Iranian/Kurdish religious beliefs
g4ly TIL Abraham Lincoln once co-owned a pub with a man named William Berry. The duo appropriately named their bar, “Berry and Lincoln”. It opened in Springfield, IL in 1834.
BreaW TIL Washington state will be the first state to allow human composting as a form of burial on May 1, 2020.
E1XpV TIL Sum 41 declined a deal to provide a punk cover of "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" for Zoolander's gasoline fight scene after watching a screening with the original song as a placeholder. "It’s perfect. You’ll ruin it by us doing a punk version of that."
4kyJR TIL about the experiment to find the world's funniest (most average) joke with the widest appeal. Richard Wiseman created LaughLab, an online experiment for people to submit and rate jokes. Gurpal Gosal of Manchester submitted the winning joke based on a 1951 radio skit written by Spike Milligan.