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TIL Human urine is actually beneficial to plants and can be used as a natural fertilizer because of its composition of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.

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6ED4Z TIL each day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus (243 earth days vs 225)
OG5Ag TIL Stanley Kubrick was a chess hustler, spending days down in Washington Square Park earning money against the regulars who haunted it. During the 1950s, Kubrick would often be found in Washington Square, a park in New York City, playing chess from 12 noon until 12 midnight
yYJV TIL:The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie
ANgMl TIL If a person were to start to write out a googolplex at the rate of two zeros per second, it would still take far, far longer than the age of the Universe to do it.
nW767 TIL that when facing uncertainty, women feel more attracted to men with tougher facial features. Under the same conditions, men feel more attracted to women with more tender facial features.