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TIL Stephen King and his wife donated $1.2 million to build a baseball stadium in Bangor Maine under the condition that he could see the scoreboard from his home office window

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4Kja TIL that the same parasympathetic system that commands your colon to go to the bathroom, is also the same system that controls your tears. Sometimes, these signals get crossed which is why some people cry when they poop.
YLNB TIL it takes 4 litres of water to make a 1 litre plastic water bottle
L7G0 TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
YpwWP TIL that the oldest known graffiti in Pompeii says; ‘Gaius Pumidius Diphilus was here’, along with the date October 3, 78 BC.
nNVb TIL there is a group of gay men in the Mormon church that call themselves the “Unicorn Club”. They admit that they are homosexual, but live a straight lifestyle because of their religious beliefs.