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TIL: Average american toilets clog far more than European ones (by design choice) and that's why they are always talking about plungers.

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0vxM TIL The keys to the holiest site in Christianity are held by a Muslim family that opens the church every morning. Meant to keep the peace between the denominations this arrangement has been in place since 1187 ce.
gr9Q7 TIL about the Hoover Dam Tragedy. The project's first recorded fatality was surveyor J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while searching for an ideal dam site. Thirteen years to the day, on December 20, 1935, the last man to die during construction was Tierney's son, Patrick W. Tierney.
dpB7 TIL that between 1969 and 1972, there were 276 hijacked airplanes (an average of about 1 every 5 days).
L0Mp TIL To create the battles for Lord of the Rings, Weta used a program called MASSIVE & was able to create thousands of CG soldiers, give them artificial intelligence, talents, and skills, then just let them fight. The AI worked so well that some of the soldiers assessed the battle and fled.
DQYvj TIL Chaka Khan, who just turned 70, sang background on Steve Windwood's 1986 hit "Higher Love"