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TIL that referring to a bathroom or water closet as a Crapper, stems from Thomas Crapper. Thomas was an English businessman and plumber that made significant improvements to toilet design. He held 3 toilet patents and we still use most of them today.

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JYkw1 TIL that wood ants practice chemistry, and will synthesize an antibiotic substance using tree resin and formic acid to protect the health of their colony. It is considered to be the most advanced act of evolutionary pharmacology seen in the animal kingdom
ZReB TIL ABC has been cutting scenes from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, a movie about the excessive commercialization of Christmas, to make room for more commercials.
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AaJx TIL: When Pete Conrad, who was somewhat shorter than Neil Armstrong, stepped onto the lunar surface during Apollo 12, his first words were “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.”