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TIL that latchkey incontinence is the phenomenon where the closer that one gets to the restroom, the more urgently one has to use the restroom

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RW56 TIL the Amphitheatre of Pompeji, the first one the Romans built out of stone in the 1st cent. BCE, still offers valuable and relevant lessons to crowd control specialists in the creation of modern venues
K5vR TIL there’s a Post Office at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It serves the Havasupai Reservation and the town of Supai, and post arrives via mule on a 2 ½ hour journey each day.
ANb7a TIL that in the Queens of the Stone Age song “the lost art of keeping a secret” the main chorus is “whatever you do, don’t tell anyone” and is not “whatever you do, I’m telling your mom”
nbVd TIL another term for an intrusive thought is “The Imp of the Perverse”, a metaphor (popularized / coined by Edgar Allan Poe) for the urge to do exactly the wrong thing in a given situation for the sole reason that it is possible for wrong to be done.
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