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TIL It’s not possible to delete a Skype account.

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a8DE0 TIL You could have traveled from London to Calcutta, India by a bus in 1950s.
E1aPw TIL that Irish author James Joyce was very into farting during sex. When in Italy, he sent a number of extremely explicit letters to his wife Nora, where he detailed almost every act you could think of. He mentioned farting a lot.
NXogQ TIL Eyren was the most common word for what we call eggs today, and it only changed because William Caxton used a printing press to flood England with publications calling them eggs.
W7kJ8 TIL tin leprosy or tin pest that destroyed pipe organs in the medieval times happens because at 13.2 °C (56F) and below, tin transforms from the silvery, ductile metallic allotrope of β-form white tin to the brittle, non-metallic, α-form grey tin.
xYl7 TIL the New Zealand town of Brightwater had 5 electric street lights in 1911 powered by a hydroelectric generator which was auto-controlled by a flock of chickens. At night, the chickens would go inside their coop and their weight would close an electric circuit, turning on the street lights.