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TIL that Johnny Carson caused a nationwide toilet paper shortage in 1973 by claiming on national TV that there was a toilet paper shortage.

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RMDj TIL in 1956 Soviets proposed a joint project to build a dam across Bering Strait in order to warm the Arctic Ocean but it wasn’t found practicable by the US
E1J6X TIL that most of the paraphiliacs are comfortable with their paraphilia as Québec Science says somewhere. That mean that if a pedophile says that he's sorry for praying on children and he'll never do that again, he may still do it again but with extra caution.
6EnM7 TIL that Billy the pygmy hippo was the pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, outlived him by 23 years, and sired 18 children all named Gumdrop
R7QOj TIL that scientists speculate Caesarian Sections are changing human evolution. A new study suggests that an increasingly common reason women undergo C-sections is because their pelvis is too narrow, this number is up 10-20% from the 1960s.
NL4N TIL that no new malls have been built in the United States since 2006 and 15% of U.S. malls will fail within the next 10 years