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TIL instead of diapers, Chinese kids wear special pants that allow them to defecate anywhere and everywhere…

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Lrep TIL “That 70’s Show” premiered in 1998, 28 years after 1970. If a hypothetical “That 90’s Show” were to air with the same offset, it would premiere 3 years from now.
WkOMA TIL that John Henry Patterson, the engineer famous for killing the Tsavo lions was, while Protestant, the leader of the first all Jewish military unit in WWI and is a celebrated person in Israel today
KOxLE TIL: That a retreating Austrian army of 3000 men accidentally encountered Napoleon leading a force of only 1200 French in the middle of the night. Napoleon tricked the Austrians into thinking his entire army was present and captured the larger force without as single shot being fired.
gMvvb TIL Nestlé pays $524 yearly on an expired permit to pump and bottle about 30 million gallons of water from California, even during droughts. To explain this, a supervisor claimed that the Forest Service didn't have the money for a proper review of the permit; he later became a consultant for Nestlé.
l7MjV TIL about the “Rawalpindi Experiments” where British Soldiers tested the effects of mustard gas on 20,000 Indians in the early 1930s