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TIL residential electrical outlets are usually turned “upside down” to denote that they are connected to a wall-switch.

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OO8R TIL that one of the hikers who found “Ötzi,” a 5000 year old mummy buried in ice in the Alps, was found dead, buried in ice, after a hiking accident in 2004. He is one of 7 people linked to the mummy to have died within the same year.
OLbL TIL Actor Crispin Glover (from Back to The Future) was in character from an upcoming movie during an bizarre interview with Letterman in 1987 because of this everyone thought he was crazy for years to come, because the movie wasn’t released until 1991.
WgJL TIL an inmate on death row requested for his last meal that a large vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person. The prison officials denied his request although homeless shelters received massive numbers of vegetarian pizzas from strangers.
D4vP TIL James A. Garfield could write in Greek and Latin at the same time, using both hands (one for each language)
jgvn TIL that there s a large-ish group of people who call themselves Otherkin who self-identify as animals, real or fictional, and even inanimate objects apparently.