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TIL that ancient Romans used urine as mouthwash. Urine contains ammonia, which is one of the best natural cleaning agents on the planet.

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Vd5p TIL That after a Colonel called his men “animals” for cutting off the heads of Japanese dead and impaling them on poles, one soldier responded “That’s right Colonel, we are animals. We live like animals, we eat and are treated like animals–what the fuck do you expect?”
a88x0 TIL that earwax of Europeans and Africans is light to dark brown, sticky and moist. The earwax of Asians is colourless or grey, brittle and dry.
JK08 TIL That about 37% of purchased steam games are never played.
5V11P TIL that male camels have a large organ in their throats (called “Dulla”), an inflatable sac they extrude from their mouths when in rut, to assert dominance and attract females. It resembles a long, swollen, pink tongue hanging out of the side of the mouth.
67AJ TIL that when a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time due to the lack of light pollution.