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TIL that Japanese women would keep flushing continuously to mask the sound of them urinating and so devices were introduced which would keep producing the sound of flushing after activation in almost all the public restrooms.

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pYZoZ TIL about Amy Fisher, known in the media as the “Long Island Lolita”, who was the subject of three network movies broadcast in a 2 week span.
E1WGW TIL that for 5000 years, Europeans built huge magnificent cities, and lived in them, just to burn them to the ground every 75 years. People in current-day Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the area, intentionally set their settlements on fire between 7000-2000 BC, for reasons still being researched.
Oo6e1 TIL when autocorrect first launched on Microsoft Word, Goldman Sachs employees had difficulty using it because their company name automatically changed to Goddamn Sachs.
RRwQ TIL that one of the leading lights of the Gun Control movement had to withdraw his work from publication and had a prestigious national history award rescinded due to false, unethical and fraudulent research
rNGAd TIL Project A119, a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force, the aim of which was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon as a show of force to the USSR. A young Carl Sagan worked on the project.