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TIL 17% of people pee in the bath tub while taking a bath

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786RP TIL that there is a species of beetle named Hemipeplus saymyname, whose specific name is derived from the quote, "Say my name", from the series Breaking Bad.
4kwkg TIL Low-dose Aspirin comes in 81 mg because prior to the Metric system, England in the Middle Ages used an apothecary system of weights, with the base weight derived from 1 grain of barleycorn. Adult Asprin dosage was 5 grain (325 mg), with a low-dose one-quarter portion being 1.25 grain, or 81 mg.
grrVD TIL about the "Ancient Spanish Monastery" in Miami, a monastery built in 1141 AD in Europe, imported piece-by-piece into the U.S. in 1925 by media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, making it the oldest European building in the Western Hemisphere.
0Ewj TIL the first solar cell developed had less than 1% conversion efficiency, and was denounced as a fraud by the USA for “generating power without consuming matter, violating the laws of physics.”
O5We TIL that squatters on a street in West London declared independence from the UK in 1977.