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TIL Men spend 7 hours each year 'hiding' in the bathroom

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epgR5 TIL For 1 day in February 2018, China's internet censors banned the letter 'N'
loMaV TIL Chess has been solved for all positions with 7 or fewer pieces (including kings) on the board. The database for these endgame positions is 17 terabytes.
OR4X TIL that South Africa was one of the few countries that was unable to watch the Moon Landing live in 1969. Television was banned in South Africa at the time because there were fears that it would promote race mixing against nonwhites as the country was under Apartheid
ADWDg TIL Mountains of Kong, a non-existent mountain range charted on maps of Africa from 1798 through to the late 1880s
ZgrB TIL the fake prop money used in Rush Hour 2 was too accurate. After extras tried to spend the money, the secret service raided and seized $100 million in fake bills from the prop maker and accused him of counterfeiting