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TIL it’s harder to get into Clown College than it is Harvard.

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MeVZ8 TIL that Old Faithful was once used to do laundry. Clothes were placed in the geyser prior to an eruption, and the clothes would then be ejected thoroughly cleaned.
KGGJ TIL there is a community in Canada that has achieved 97% of their heating through solar power.
LkW8V TIL that a British officer who fought in WW1 was struck by lightning 4 times in his lifetime. The third strike paralyzed him completely and eventually killed him. The fourth one struck his grave, shattering his tombstone.
mxwLy TIL that NASA renamed it's condom sizes (used for urinating) from small, medium, and large, ginormous, and humongous because astronauts would get spacesuits dirty due to picking ill-fitting sizes.