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TIL An elephant takes the same amount of time to pee as a cat. Most mammals in fact, regardless of size take 21 seconds to urinate.

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8pv8 TIL a woman had to have both her legs amputated after she passed out drunk with her legs tucked under her. Cutting off circulation to her legs.
P1a0w TIL the vulture population of India has fallen from 40 million to only 19,000 in just 30 years. This has been attributed to livestock being administered a drug poisonous to the bird, and has resulted in livestock formerly eaten by vultures now left to rot in fields, contaminating the water supply.
OpA1 TIL when the Grateful Dead played “Playboy After Dark” in 1969, the band’s LSD supplier ‘Bear’ dosed the coffee urn that everyone on set was drinking from, including Hugh Hefner. Hefner later wrote a letter to Jerry Garcia thanking the band for the enjoyable experience.
6E5mW TIL Ed O'Neil (Married With Children) is a Brazilian Jiu-JItsu Black Belt
wojAP TIL that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two largest center's of Christian population in Japan during WWII. The atomic bombing in Nagasaki killed 66% of the Christians in the city.