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TIL that Germans killed an estimated 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians in concentration camps

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xoV1 TIL That in 14 years and 14 seasons of trying to become the greatest Pokemon Master, Ash Ketchum has still never gotten past the semi-finals of the Pokemon League.
9YoDr TIL Many of the coupons featured on TLC’s “Extreme Couponing” were fraudulent.
E1mLP TIL Tupper’s self referential formula is an inequality that plots anything you can fit in a 106x17 pixels rectangle in a certain interval on the Y-axis. As a consequence, we can state that for every one of us there is an interval where the formula plots our name and the date of our death.
pMnA TIL Joe Pyne once started his interview with Frank Zappa by saying “So I guess your long hair makes you a woman.” to which Zappa responded “So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table!”
MebnV TIL the first documented use of toilet paper dates back in 589AD in early medieval China. Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while others used their hand when defecating into rivers, using rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stones, sand, moss,water, snow, etc.