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Today I learned: Holding in your urine, can actually cause kidney failure and kill you.

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rRBkx TIL A 14-year-old boy was gang-raped by inmates during a judge-ordered visit to a prison for the Scared Straight program in the 1970s.
8aWya TIL about the Lloyd's Bank Coprolite, the largest piece of human feces ever found by archeologists. It tragically broke into three pieces in 2003 after being dropped on show at an exhibition.
M7DoW TIL the late Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld book series, wrote dialogue for a companion mod of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
6MLZ TIL that the first documented case of child abuse was reported to an animal welfare organization, for lack of a better resource. Which means that animals had welfare rights in the US before children did.
VXrD TIL that Voltaire, who was strongly against the Christian church, was asked by a priest to renounce Satan while on his deathbed. His response: “Now is not the time for making new enemies.”