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TiL that it more hygienic and environmentally friendly for men to piss in the sink.

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N71o1 TIL that mellified man, a substance created when deceased humans were preserved in honey, was used as a medicine in parts of the world until the 19th Century.
nePvb TIL During Operation Ivy Bells (wire tapping Soviet underwater communication lines) the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) was almost lost during one of the missions—she was stranded on the bottom after a storm and almost had to use her self-destruct charges to scuttle the ship with her crew.
xN8B TIL every year Louis Vuitton burns all their left over handbags and accessories to preserve the high-class nature of the brand and it’s value
LknMV TIL that in 1977, the FBI started to build a tunnel under the Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C to eavesdrop on the Soviets; the construction took years, was riddled with complications, and worse yet - the Soviets knew about the tunnel because of a tip-off
ADBy4 TIL Todd Rundgren did the music for Dumb and Dumber, one of the very few feature films that he did the score for.