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TIL that the body has touch receptors inside the colon to let you know the difference between fart and poo.

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nWo7r TIL Steve Harwell, singer of Smash Mouth, was originally a rapper in a Public-Enemy-inspired rap group, but abandoned the project after he heard Dr Dre's The Chronic and realised that the genre was changing.
691QW TIL about the 'criterion of embarassment', a type of analysis in which a historical account is deemed likely to be true under the inference that the author would have no reason to invent a story that would embarrass themselves. The crucifixion of Jesus is an example of such an event.
yVkZM TIL the ‘70s fascination with truckers as anti-government modern cowboys started when an advertising executive invented C.W. McCall, a folksy trucker character, for a bread ad. He recorded country music using McCall as a stage name, and his #1 hit, “Convoy,” spawned a movie by the same name.
jkOa TIL British researchers found a 60-year-old woman who has been unable to recognize voices, not even her own daughter’s. Unless she sees the face of the person speaking, she has no idea who is talking to her. After university research, she was found to recognize only one voice-that of Sean Connery.
rR754 TIL that rats masturbate