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TIL the cause of a traffic light’s collapse in Japan was due to dogs excessively urinating on the base of it, causing corrosion.

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yQDlw TIL there’s a dating app in Iceland that "helps prevent accidental incest". Due to the small population of 320,000 it is a real risk bumping into a previously unknown cousin. The app lets users "bump" phones and emits a warning alarm if they are closely related.
XEKwQ TIL that Gershon Legman (who coined the phrase "Make love, not war") categorised 3780 sex positions
WZ4Y TIL. A company named Ray’s Sausage spent over $20,000.00 in improvements to their sausage making business due to constant complaints for causing foul odors, but the odors were actually from the rotting victims of serial killer Anthony Sowell.
l8L5 TIL that the use of the phrase “Checkmate” is a mispronunciation of the original Persian, “ Shäh mät!”, which means the king is helpless
o9OE TIL a man was only sentenced to five years probation for killing the man who kidnapped and molested his 11-year old son.