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TIL; Flushing a toilet with the lid down could reduce airborne particles by as much as 50%.

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N76gN TIL that Rod Serling wrote one of "The Twilight Zone" episodes as his reaction to JFK assassination. The episode ends with the news broadcast saying that the sky has turned dark over the street in Dallas; as well as North Vietnam, part of the Berlin Wall and "other places of hate around the world".
wowVY TIL Catacomb saints are skeletons exhumed from Roman catacombs and decorated with gold and jewels to serve as "replacement relics" for those destroyed during the Protestant Reformation. It is unlikely that any of those skeletons are actually of the people they are reputed by tradition to be.
rNlbw TIL West Indies is not a country but a group of islands containing 13 countries.
4XYnb TIL the Comanche code word for Adolf Hitler (used by the Code Talkers during WWII) was “crazy white man.”
m9wR TIL that, since Romans used daylight and darkness to determine time, an hour was 45 minutes in the winter and 75 in the summer