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TIL Single Men Wash Their Sheets on Average Four Times per Year

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DyQp TIL that electricity was installed in the White House in 1891 during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. He was so afraid of being electrocuted that he and his family never operated the light switches, always making his servants do it for them. He often slept with the lights on.
dD5mE TIL of Sun Yaoting, the last eunuch of China who had his penis and testicles removed at the age of eight. Less than two years before China abolish the monarchy.
JrM8 TIL: Matthew Broderick killed a mother and her daughter when he crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo. He was fined $175.
Z8PdR TIL that, in humans, there is a secreted protein that is literally called “Sonic hedgehog”
Oo7YR TIL Number 4 (四; accounting 肆; pinyin sì) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (死 pinyin sǐ). Due to that, many numbered product lines skip the "4": e.g., Nokia cell phones (there is no series beginning with a 4), Palm PDAs, Canon PowerShot