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TIL Some flush toilets in Japan have a spigot on top of the tank,allowing users to conserve water by washing their hands in water destined for the next flush.

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KObo6 TIL the Michelin Guide has excluded Los Angeles since 2009. Former Michelin Guide director Jean-Luc Naret said, “The people in Los Angeles are not real foodies. They are not too interested in eating well but just in who goes to which restaurant and where they sit.”
e07Zb TIL that in 1856, an Indian surveyor calculated the peak of Mount Everest to be exactly 29,000 ft. Fearing that nobody would believe that this was the exact height and nothing more than an estimate, he publicly declared the height to be 29,002 ft.
kOBJ4 TIL that 4 divers literally exploded when a member of the boat crew accidentally opened the outer hatch of their decompression chamber. The men went from 305ft. down to sea level instantaneously.
R7pB4 TIL about “mad honey,” a honey made by bees gathering pollen from rhododendrons. “To put it mildly, just one spoonful can get you as effed up as a football bat” -
V0v8 TIL a tiny roundoff software error resulted in the death of 28 U.S. soldiers, a 1/3 of a second rounding error turning into a 600 meter interception failure