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TIL that 2.5 billion people do not have access to toilets

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MZw8 TIL Bernard Noble was sentenced to and is currently serving 13-40 years in prison for 2 joints (strike 3 conviction).
OoyGg TIL that Louis Vuitton (the designer) left his childhood home at age 13 after his mother's death. He then decided to go to Paris by foot, a journey that took him 2 years, finding shelter and work as he went along.
d5Xr TIL domestic cats purr at a frequency of about 26 Hertz, in a range that promotes bone and tissue regeneration.
mgAP TIL a World’s Biggest Liar is an annual competition for telling lies, held in Cumbria, England. Politicians and lawyers are not allowed to enter the competition, because “they are judged to be too skilled at telling porkies”.
8ajPV TIL that Robert Ballard's discovery of the Titanic in 1985 was actually a by product. The expedition which found the wreck was funded by the US government to study the effects of radiation from two US Navy submarines which had sunk in the 1960s. The Titanic search was a cover.