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TIL that Japanese bathrooms have a button that plays the flushing sound to mask the sound of your own business.

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PYwMJ TIL in 1721, the now-Lutheran Danish sent missionaries to Greenland, as it was assumed the medieval Norse settlers must still be Catholic or had reverted to paganism. The Norse had died out in the early 1400s, but the Danes found Inuit there instead
Eg9r7 TIL 4/20 was Hitler's birthday. I'll never celebrate it again.
VMLXG TIL that koalas have one of the smallest brains in proportion to body weight of any mammal. They are so dumb, that when presented with leaves on a flat surface instead of on branches, they are unable to recognize them as food and will not eat them.
QNAdd TIL the official tourism ambassador for Shinjuku ward, Tokyo is Godzilla.
R7P59 TIL Eddie Redmayne spent four months researching Stephen Hawking before playing him on-screen when he was forced to sit in a wheelchair for hours, which made it hard to breathe. He watched every single documentary and YouTube video of Hawking and visited a neurology clinic in London every two weeks