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TIL that 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater in order to conserve the city's scarce freshwater resources

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b8Aa TIL that, according to legend, the funeral escort killed anyone and anything across their path to conceal where Gengis Khan was finally buried.
1gZd TIL Wall Street’s iconic 7,100lb bronze Charging Bull sculpture is actually an illegal piece of street art
VvJk TIL Consumption of Alcohol Helps People Decontaminate themselves from Radiation.
QJa6a TIL about Skateistan, an organization in Afghanistan dedicated to young people's education and skating. 50 percent of the children skating are girls because Afghanistan culture views it as a toy rather than a sport.
v1PK TIL on September 19, 1985, when Frank Zappa famously testified before Congress to protest the PMRC’s attempt to legislate and censor heavy metal music lyrics, Zappa compared the proposed legislation to “treating dandruff by decapitation”