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TIL that in Italy the installation of a bidet in a bathroom has been mandatory since 1975

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8eWpZ TIL for nearly 500 years, English monarchs styled themselves "King/Queen of France" in addition to their other titles, beginning with the Hundred Years' War and ending with the abolition of the French monarchy.
R0Qa TIL With 150,000 post offices, India has the largest postal network in the world. However, it is not unusual for a letter to take two weeks to travel just 30 miles.
VMKAB TIL of Kris Boesen, a young man who is the first fully quadriplegic person to regain use of his arms after an experimental stem cell injection surgery; he was paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash, and then had surgery which injected 10 million AST-OPC1 cells.
9YXYp TIL about TRIS, a flame retardant that has been shown to cause cancer. However, TRIS and many other flame retardants are widespread in homes and are linked to a wide range of toxic effects even though they might not even work.
VMKg0 TIL In an epilogue at the end of the original 1931 Dracula film, Dracula breaks the fourth wall and taunts the audience, saying vampires are real and to be afraid. In a 1936 re-release, this was censored by the Hays Code, out of fear it would encourage belief in the occult.