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TIL there are incinerating toilets that burn human feces. The excrement is collected in a pan and incinerated, reducing it to pathogen-free ash

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b9drj TIL that in ancient Egypt people with Dwarfism were worshipped, because it was believed they had special relationship with certain gods
Aa7w TIL Some Catholics urged Pope Clement VII to ban coffee, calling it “devil’s beverage”. After tasting the beverage, the Pope is said to have remarked that the drink was “… so delicious that it would be a sin to let only misbelievers drink it”.
Y7LLZ TIL that J Bruce Ismay spent the rest of his life after The Titanic, in raising money for sailors, donating over a million pounds in today’s terms of his own money.