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TIL about Safe Haven Boxes. An anonymous drop off for newborns, preventing them from abandonment.

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y0bJ TIL disposable toilet seat covers are meant to have the flap fall in the front of the bowl. This is to prevent penis to porcelain contact or urine splash back.
RvJj TIL Steve Wozniak used to submit Tetris high scores to Nintendo Power magazine, and even started sending them under an alias when they refused to publish anymore of his high scores
PYBaG TIL that Judith Viorst (author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) wrote a poem about her parents' deaths when she was seven. Both her parents were still alive at the time, and were not amused.
OGQN4 TIL about Popcorn Lung, a disease caused by a chemical in artificial butter flavoring. In 2012 a microwavable popcorn consumer was awarded US$7.27 million in damages after contracting the disease.
awvEZ TIL that the Library of Alexandria was accidentally burnt down by Julius Caesar the same year he met Cleopatra. Historians estimate that humanity lost 1000 years of technological advancement.