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TIL that I’ve been pooping the wrong way my whole life.

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Z8VWG TIL places like Wales, Wallachia, Wallonia, and Cornwall etc, have similar names because it was the word German conquerors called the surviving Roman speakers after the empire fell. The twem "walhaz" means stranger, which the surviving Roman refugees were to them.
VMkjm TIL the IKEA Catalogue has surpassed the Bible as the world's most printed book
E14jx TIL of Judy Melinek, a medical examiner who identified hundreds of bodies from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, many of which were merely scraps of flesh or pieces of limb. She was called in mid-August 2002 because they had found a foot bone on top of another skyscraper 1/5 mile away.
665Y TIL Pope Innocent VIII was given the blood of 3 young boys while in a coma in an attempt to save his life. All four died.
WMA8 TIL: The first non stop Atlantic flight was by two British airman in 1919, it is almost forgotten about.