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TIL that doctors warn that sitting on the toilet for more than 10 minutes is bad for you

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1ao54 TIL the very different first draft of Star Wars Empire Strikes Back by Leigh Brackett was released online in 2016
Y7J8W TIL a 2005 Harris Interactive poll conducted over the phone asked U.S. adults if they always washed their hands after various situations. 91% said they always washed their hands after using public restrooms but when observers went to U.S. public restrooms they found only 83% of the people there did.
QJnj9 TIL Humans put a man on the moon (1969) before putting wheels on luggage (1970)
6E77Y TIL that there is a 'copyleft', distinguished from copyright, is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works created later.
k9w4 TIL 400 million years ago, before trees took over, Earth was covered in 24-foot mushrooms called prototaxites.