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TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.

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e0nw5 TIL: Of the Blood Falls, a waterfall in Antarctica made up of primordial bacteria which have been sealed away from the rest of the earth for millions of years.
nWGdB TIL that one of the most celebrated Bugs Bunny cartoons was thought up when the head of the cartoon studio randomly and inexplicably told the animators that they were not to make any cartoons about bullfighting
QJAn9 TIL: Tim Burton did not direct "Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas." Henry Selick, director of "James and the Giant Peach" and "Coraline," carried out the task, due to Burton having prior commitments to "Batman Returns."
KOwVE TIL it's not hard alcohol itself that's burning your throat. Instead, the ethanol in the liquid is making your throat's VR1 heat receptors more sensitive, prompting them to perceive your own body temperature as hot.
r0Po TIL In Jimmy Carter’s 1970 run for Gov. of GA, he criticized support of MLK, Jr. and praised segregationist Wallace to win conservative voters. Once he won the election, he declared that “the time of racial segregation was over.” His conservative supporters were shocked. He planned it all along.