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TIL: 67% of People with Gym Memberships Never Use Them.

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M5vK TIL that the series finale of MAS*H had an estimated 125 million viewers; the most for any TV show. It was also reported that 77% of the toilets in NYC were flushed in the 3 minutes following the end of the episode, the highest water usage at one given time in the city’s history.
J1ONl TIL There is a Guinness world record for the longest amount of time needed to create an official government. It is held by Belgium. It took Belgian politicians 541 days to form an official government.
1a4wD TIL - Pain is the most common reason people go to the ER.
v1dYK TIL 'Plankton' is not a single species, but is instead an umbrella term used to refer to any lifeform that drifts with the ocean currents, including microorganisms like bacteria and algae, as well as larger creatures like jellyfish.
GY07J TIL that there's actually a phenomenon for pronouncing a word repeatedly until it loses its meaning: semantic satiation