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TIL that the Museum of London had a whole exhibit for a chunk of sewage

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9wvl7 TIL the term 'pitch black' refers to pitch, a sticky black substance that is obtained from the distillation of wood tar or petroleum.
ne5O9 TIL Out of every US dollar spent on gasoline, 18.4 cents are taxed.
VMdLZ TIL: If you gently press the bottom right corner of your eyeball through the eyelid, you see a little dark spot in the top left of your vision. This is because we see the world upside down, but our brain translate it so it looks right side up to us.
QBrd TIL Katy perry has a cat named kitty purry.
671l TIL wind chill calculations assume that your exposed face is roughly five feet off the ground, it’s night, and you’re walking directly into the wind in an open field at a clip of about 3 mph.