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TIL toilet paper only became "splinter-free" in the 1930s.
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TIL Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, an HBO animated series from 1995-2000. featuring an all star cast. Each episode takes on a classic fairytale set in a different culture. This included a Chinese Little Red Riding Hood, Latino Hansel & Gretel and, Jamaican Rumpelstiltskin.
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TIL that singer (Mama) Cass Elliot died of a heart attack in a flat in London at age 32, and four years later The Who's drummer Keith Moon also died in the same room, also aged 32 years.
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TIL there is a fish doorbell at a lock in Utrecht, where viewers of the livestream notify the lock-keeper to open the lock for fish to pass through.
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TIL that poison control was started by one Chicago pharmacist that started keeping notes on new cleaning products when people came into the ER and started taking calls at home 24/7
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TIL: The residents of the Spanish village Villar de Corneja near Avila, where the average age is 75, toast the New Year 12 hours before the rest of their countrymen in a collective decision to get to bed at a decent hour.