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TIL in 2013, 3000 workers at a garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh went on strike, some even rioting, not for better pay or working conditions, but because they wanted something to be done about the ghost inhabiting the bathroom.

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1aMb7 TIL that there is a tree that legally "owns itself" and the land within 8 feet of the tree
KOoa9 TIL, numbers that are the product of two prime numbers (e.g. 4, 6, 9, 10, etc.) are called semiprimes, and sometimes they can be the squares of prime numbers. Semiprime numbers have no composite numbers as factors other than themselves, which is another reason why they are called semiprimes.
5YY0B TIL that following his development of the icepick lobotomy, Dr. Walter Freeman began traveling across the country visiting mental institutions in his personal van, which he called the "lobotomobile".
9Y0lr TIL Hummingbirds build their nests with dandelion seeds and spiderweb.
XybE TIL that astronaut Alan Shepard peed himself minutes before becoming the first American in space.