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Everybody poops—around a pound a day, in fact—and everybody wants a clean butt. Good old TP has come a long way since the first commercial toilet paper was marketed 162 years ago, and you might be surprised at how much Research & Development goes into each roll.

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P14KL TIL The Amazing Jonathan, late comedian and magician, was married to, and managed by, Anastasia Synn, a transhumanist, biohacker, and cyborg rights activist. She holds the Guinness World Record for most technological implants in the female body and has the largest magnet ever implanted in a person.
gM078 TIL the thousands of monkeys in the Lopburi province of Thailand are split in two gangs: temple and city monkeys. The monkeys rely on tourists for food but due to the lack of tourism, the monkeys are starving and have taken to waging large scale 'gang wars' over as little as a single banana.
9wNpp TIL that mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other species.
AdPx TIL that a Roman general named Marcus Crassus created Rome’s first firefighting crew with a team of 500 men. His team would respond to a fire, and then Crassus would force the owner of the burning building to sell him the property at an exorbitantly low price, or let it burn to the ground.
N7YXM TIL Advil has a candy coating