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TIL a german court ruled that men have a legal right to pee standing up

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0wZw5 TIL During World War II, the U.S. government urged Americans to save excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the army to produce explosives.
N76Ee TIL that my learned habit of putting 2 spaces after a period is woefully out of date.
OApg TIL:Nikola Tesla disagreed with the theory of atoms being composed of smaller subatomic particles, stating there was no such thing as an electron creating an electric charge
8emnV TIL in 1199, Albert of Buxhoeveden was appointed Bishop of Livonia, where Estonia and Latvia are today. With the support of Pope Innocent III, he embarked in 1200 with 23 ships and over 1,500 crusaders to help convert the pagan Baltic peoples to Christianity.
N7PKM TIL J.J Thompson was awarded a Nobel prize in 1906 for proving Electrons are particles, his son G.P Thomas was awarded a Nobel prize in 1937 for showing electrons are waves