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TIL Parisians call street urination “Le pippi savage” or wild pipi.

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woNQ8 TIL the Powerpuff Girls was originally called "Whoopass Stew"
0d9Q5 TIL of George Spencer Millet, who died running away from 6 girls who were trying to give him kisses on his 15th birthday. He tripped and fell on an ink eraser in his front pocket that stabbed his heart.
Z8B8G TIL of Henryk Siwiak, a Polish man shot in New York on the night of September 11th 2001. Owing to the chaos of the 9/11 attacks, his death was never properly investigated and no one has ever been charged with his murder
dDED8 TIL With 8,130.5 mm (320.1 inches) of rainfall a year, Quibdó has the highest amount of rainfall in South America of any city of its size or greater. The wettest city of larger size, Monrovia in Liberia, receives 3,050 millimetres (120 in) less rain annually than Quibdó.
wLAr8 TIL During the terrifying cholera epidemic of 1835–1836, the island of Sardinia was the only Italian region to escape cholera, thanks to surveillance by armed men who had orders to prevent, by force, any ship that attempted to disembark persons or cargo on the coast