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TIL showers were invented as a deliberately unpleasant treatment to cure the insane

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0dAp5 TIL that water vapor is the biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect.
006A TIL Pakistan sends transgender tax collectors to embarrass those who evade taxes.
4dZN TIL In 2005, Kate Winslet joked that acting in a Holocaust movie guarantees an Oscar. Four years later, she won her first and only Oscar for her role in The Reader.
jM6E TIL shortly before each terrorist who was involved in the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes was assassinated by Mossad, his family would receive flowers and a condolence card that read, “A reminder we do not forget or forgive.”
QNpxd TIL Scientists at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia spent 17 years trying to identify powerful but extremely short radio bursts that would appear at seemingly random intervals. In 2015 they finally identified the cause: a microwave oven at the facility being opened prematurely.