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TIL Kim Jong-il, according to North Korean media, didn’t need to urinate or defecate. Just one of many amazing traits he reportedly had.

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R5xa1 TIL that a giant Publix birthday cake serves as the water tower for Lakeland, FL. Built in the 1980s the tower stands at 146 ft tall and delivers 250k gallons of water per minute.
4XAPo TIL Seeing eye dogs are taught to poop on command so their blind owners can know when they go.
DQpJ TIL the movie Twister was rated PG-13 for ‘intense depiction of bad weather’
vPmYK TIL soul music pioneer Curtis Mayfield was paralysed from the neck down during a live performance in 1990, and still managed to produce an album in 1996
Rrd4 TIL in 1897, a newlywed woman was found dead in her home. Although her death was attributed to natural causes, her mother’s insistence that she had been visited by the woman’s ghost compelled authorities to reopen the case, at which time an autopsy revealed the woman had suffered a broken neck.