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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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rNk9w TIL one of the proposed definitions for the meter was the seconds pendulum, which takes 1 second for each swing
rwZw TIL that shortening is called shortening because it creates shorter strands of gluten in dough, which in turn makes the dough less stretchy.
9DxX TIL Vending machines kill more people per year than sharks. Vending machines kill an average of 13 people a year, sharks 5.
165G7 TIL of the largest floating vessel ever built, the Shell Prelude Floating Liquified Natural Gas platform
AD7kB TIL that a Toronto man was shot 30 times by armed robbers and still survived. Police found 33 shell casings near him. He underwent two 15 hour surgeries for his gunshot wounds.