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TIL Brazilian law requires every hotel to provide condoms to every guest

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GAMNQ TIL that in some extremely impoverished areas, such as the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, residents use “flying toilets”: Plastic bags that, after being filled, are thrown as far away as possible.
VXjG TIL the website hampsterdance.com was created in 1998 as a result of a competition between two Canadian sisters to see who could generate the most traffic and is one of the earliest examples of an internet meme.
X04J6 TIL The average life span of a pet cat has risen from seven years in the early 1980s to fifteen years as of 2021.
D1xmp TIL of the Contranym, which is a word that has two contradicting definitions. Ex. Shelled means both having a shell and stripped of a shell
7AK7 TIL: The Beatles song “I am the Walrus” was written after John learned the English master in his former high school was making the class analyze lyrics from Beatles songs. In response, he wrote the most confusing lyrics he could, saying, “Let the fuckers work that one out.”