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TIL Tokyo has a Poop Museum (うんこミュージアム) Popular with Kids and Teens Because It Has the Feel of an Amusement Park/Game Center

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NW18 TIL the biological theory that males are naturally promiscuous and females naturally monogamous was largely based on one study of fruit flies from 1948
6E1RY TIL the origin of Backslash in MS Windows. Unix introduced in '70 the forward slash as its directory separator. In '81 MS-DOS 1.0 didn’t support directories at all and already were using "/" as switch operator, hence the DOS 2 had to chose the "\" as the only viable to keep compatibility.
R7ED7 TIL that from 1943-45, British military pilots were issued "escape boots". If they had to bail out over enemy territory, a concealed knife in one boot cоuld bе used to cut away the upper section, and convert them into "ordinary" shoes, which would help the airman pass himself off as a civilian
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