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TIL Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.

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GkNN TIL of a Boston doctor who uses tricks to minimize pain when treating children; including one of his patients who received 6 stitches on a head wound without even realizing it happened.
d8xj7 TIL a rodent that was believed to have been extinct for 113 years suddenly showed up right in front of researchers, staying long enough for its picture to be taken, before it disappeared back into the Colombian forest, having never been seen again.
69P6W TIL Runner’s trots or Gingerbread Man is the sudden and explosive need to empty one’s bowels in the heat of a race. This occurs due to shunting of blood away from the intestines and toward the muscles. Runners also lose control of both their interior and exterior sphincter muscles at the anal canal
p8bDG TIL: The United States Postal Service is older than the U.S. itself and Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General
5VMY9 TIL of Point Nemo- the place in the ocean that is farthest from land, located in the South Pacific Ocean. If you were to fall overboard, the closest human beings to you would be astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it passes overhead