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TIL that Psycho was the first film ever to show a toilet flushing on screen

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pvJN TIL that the FBI identified the Unabomber – in part – due to him using the phrase “you can’t eat your cake and have it too” instead of “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” in his manifesto.
lopx7 TIL that Perth is the most remote major city in the world. Perth is so isolated that it is quicker, easier, and cheaper to fly to Bali then to fly to the east coast. The nearest city of at least 100,000 people is Adelaide, around 1300 miles away.
lDL1 TIL, Kim Jong Un’s older brother Kim Jong-nam , was caught sneaking into Japan to visit Tokyo Disneyland with a Dominican Republic passport using a Chinese alias, Pang Xiong, which means “fat bear” in Mandarin Chinese
40VJ TIL that in 2002, a fire at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen girls. It has been strongly suggested that their deaths occured due to the involvement of the “religious police,” who prevented them from leaving the building because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress.
4xON TIL: A cat’s purr at 26 hertz promotes tissue regeneration and influenced the US space program