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TIL It’s Australian tradition to eat sausages at polling places on election day called Democracy Sausages. For many communities, this is the biggest fundraising event of the year.

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wow4W TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.
7moL TIL that when the University of Sheffield polled 250 children, all 250 reported that they disliked clowns as hospital decor
xVnQo TIL when the Supreme Court ruled on whether Muzak (e.g. elevator music) was allowed to be played on public transport, Justice Felix Frankfurter hated Muzak so much that he recused himself. He stated that he "so strongly engaged as a victim" in the case.
DQDxr TIL about the “Groom of the Stool”, a high ranking position in court that would handle the king’s shit.
y1gJ TIL in 1913 a man was charged for threatening to kill his wife and newborn son with a knife. The mother remarried and the boy changed his name to that of his step-father. That boy went on to become the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford.