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TIL that it's possible to drink too much water.

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OGXLX TIL King Henry VIII of England had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet. Gross.
ErBp TIL Beauty & the Beast may be based on a true story about a man (Petrus Gonsalvus) with an excessive hair disease called hypertrichosis and King Henry II of France had him educated then married off as an experiment
QadX TIL Barry Manilow did not write his hit song “I Write the Songs”
grXZ7 TIL Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first film to feature the visuals and sounds of a flushing toilet with the toilet as an integral part of the story.
QJ0MX TIL that the last thylacine died in 1936, and, due to the fact that the zoo expected to find a replacement, they did not bother to keep records of the animal. In fact, its gender was only determined in 2011 by a team of researchers looking frame-by-frame at a video of it.