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TIL that in some extremely impoverished areas, such as the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, residents use “flying toilets”: Plastic bags that, after being filled, are thrown as far away as possible.

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b98Lj TIL in Heavyweights (1995) that Lars was not simply being a dick when pushing the kids in the water. He was forcing them to swim and exercise.
D9mj TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”
0wjn5 TIL that Kalpana Chawla, one of the astronauts killed in the Columbia tragedy, knew Steve Morse of Deep Purple and had even taken the band’s “Machine Head” album to space with her on the mission. Morse wrote a song called “Contact Lost” as a tribute to her.
0wJGL TIL that up to 50% of young twins develop a secret language that can not be understood by others.The phenomenon is called cryptophasia and is thought to be created to communicate when one of the twins develop language slower than the other.
gOr9 TIL The Catholic Church owns a billion dollar German media firm that sells pornography