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TIL that CFO Magazine stopped giving out its annual Excellence Awards in 2001 because the three previous winners had all gone to prison

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Y7Z1P TIL there are incinerating toilets that burn human feces. The excrement is collected in a pan and incinerated, reducing it to pathogen-free ash
oBgwY TIL That the Happy Birthday song was Copyrighted until 2016
nWlZd TIL that the possibility of Black Holes was proposed in 1783 in a letter to the Royal Society
XJBD TIL: NYC had to recall pencils with the message “Too Cool to Do Drugs” on them. As they were sharpened, they’d say “Cool to Do Drugs” and “Do Drugs”, etc.
ADRwg TIL: Very few frog species actually make the familiar 'ribbit ribbit' sound made famous by the Baja California Chorus Frog which is native to Hollywood and Southern California