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TIL. Cameron Diaz advocates urinating outdoors or during a shower because it conserves electricity and water.

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45E6 TIL Jon Hamm was arrested in college for brutally hazing another student. The hazing included beating the student, dragging his genitals with a hammer and setting his clothes on fire
X07MX TIL a startup called "Novamin" marketed a bioglass for toothpaste that can repair damaged enamel; GlaxoSmithKline bought the company in 2010, pulled it from every US toothpaste brand, and now sells it exclusively overseas as Sensodyne Repair and Protect which in the US instead includes fluoride.
lZA7 TIL in Japan, your blood type is treated like your Zodiac sign is in the West, but they’re even more serious about it. “What’s your blood type?” is a common question to be asked, and there are even blood type horoscopes, etc.
epdk5 TIL in 2010, Sandra Bullock made history when she won an Oscar and Razzie in the same year.
jNo5j TIL a previously unnamed aurora-like phenomenon was named "Steve" by a Facebook group of amateur aurora-watchers, after a scene in the 2006 Dreamworks film Over The Hedge in which one of the characters, not knowing what a hedge is, exclaims "Let's call it 'Steve!'"