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TIL one cannot pee and sneeze simultaneously.

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GAXPJ TIL the reason phones have letters over the numbers is because the pre-1968 hubs that calls were routed through could only handle 10,000 subscribers with unique, 5-digit numbers. Cities often needed multiple hubs that were assigned letters to serve as the first 2 digits of the phone number.
GQA7 TIL many people in Japan are discriminated against because of their blood type.Employers often request blood types.Children at school have been split up by blood type.Japan’s softball team customises training by player’s blood type.Companies have assignments according to workers blood type.
EgOao TIL Smaller families of 1-2 children are not a new phenomena as many believe in the developed world. America dropped below 2.1 births per woman all the way back in 1973; most developed countries are the same, dropping below replacement rate in the 70s and early 80s.
neLdo TIL that when Walt Whitman's collection of poetry 'Leaves of Grass' was published in 1855 it was met with so much ridicule that one critic went as far as to request Whitman commit suicide.
rN4n1 TIL of Truganini, who was long considered to have been the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine, and who lived and died during the brutal colonisation of her land. Her dying wish for her ashes to be scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel was finally honoured in 1976, 100 years after her death.