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TIL of the Erfurt latrine disaster where nobles of the Holy Roman Empire drowned in liquid excrement

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40Ng TIL the jury selection process for the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting lasted three months and summonsed 9,000 candidates, making it the largest jury summons in U.S. history.
o60E TIL Architect Christopher Alexander advocates building street cafes in each neighborhood. “Encourage local cafes to spring up in each neighborhood. Make them intimate places, with several rooms, open to a busy path, where people can sit with coffee or a drink and watch the world go by.”
BrMpL TIL Dogs can tell dogs apart from other animals by sight alone - even wildly different looking kinds of dogs
mxEBv TIL Dupont, a chemical company, knowingly dumped an incredibly toxic chemical, called C8, into the Ohio River. The chemical eventually made it's way to aquifers downstream and gave thousands of people different kinds of cancers, and many kids birth defects.
M77jB TIL that the CIA's analysis of Osama bin Laden's PC found a “fairly extensive” hentai collection, a Steam account with Counter-Strike, FFVII, and Animal Crossing, as well as 28 crochet tutorial videos among 174GB of mostly-western entertainment