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TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time.

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Bgrmk TIL in a 2015 study, 36.3% of US women said they tried anal intercourse in their lives, but only 13.2% within 12 months of being asked.
rREQw TIL Prison Guards once handcuffed an inmates hands above his head outside in 100+ degree weather, took his clothes so he would receive more intense sun burns and refused to give him any water for 7 hours. The courts ruled that what the guards had done wasn't cruel or unusual punishment.
mx1vp TIL that the UK is divided into counties and when a county is rural, or non-metropolitan it is a county shire. Most county shires have a -shire after their name (ex. Yorkshire)
YpX87 TIL there hasn’t been a single verified death by spider bite in the USA in 40 years and Australia in 50 years
yQPPM TIL that at some point in 1847, the chief executioner of France informed the government that he was unable to carry out that day’s execution because he’d pawned the guillotine to pay off a debt and lacked the funds to buy it back