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TIL that it is illegal to NOT flush the toilet in Singapore. For failing to flush, you will be fined $150, and police officers have been known to check…

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J1nDl TIL Michael Berryman (1982 Hills Have Eyes) was also in Motley Crue’s Home Sweet Home Music Video as the person who hands the phone to each one of the band members calling them away
dyd8 TIL that a french woman was once charged 1,721,000,000,000,000 euros (£9.4qn) on her phone bill - nearly 6,000 times France’s annual economic output. When she disputed the amount, she was told nothing could be done and was offered a payment scheme.
woJ4Y TIL: That the movie 'The Karate Kid' is a semi-autobiographical story based on the life of its screenwriter, Robert Mark Kamen. At age 17, after the 1964 New York World's Fair, Kamen was beaten up by a gang of bullies. He thus began to study martial arts in order to defend himself.
xVNm5 TIL that there's no proof that only advertising actually works. When tested, online advertising effect without selection effects, are statistically indistinguishable from zero.
R5Kgj TIL the sound the velociraptors used to communicate in Jurassic Park (1993) was actually the sound of tortoises mating.