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TIL Almost every mammal urinates for approximately 21 seconds, it is called the “Law of Urination.”

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6JoY TIL the Mcdonalds’ McRib sandwich is made of over 70 ingredients. The bun only contains 32.
ADaPa TIL of Dolly Oesterreich, a Milwaukee woman who kept a voluntary sex slave in the attics of her two homes, her husband and 2 lovers none the wiser, for about 10 years. Despite the murder of her husband and her attempts to cover it up she was never convicted and eventually died at the age of 80.
W7Bd TIL Mother Teresa actually believed that the poor was meant to be poor, the sick intended to be sick and used all donations to open up unwanted covenants. Then when sick herself, went to the best medical centers. (3 part series)
R79V4 TIL of GRB 080319B, a extremely bright gamma ray burst/supernova that despite being 7.5 billion light years away from the Earth, was visible to the naked eye for around 30 seconds
Wkn0B TIL Ancient Egyptians were notorious for their subversive political humor and the Romans banned Egyptian advocates from law because all of their joking disrupted the sanctity of the courts.