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TIL that astronauts recycle urine and sweat into drinking water

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gpvW TIL of the Toynbee Tiles, cryptic messages placed in asphalt on roads in about two dozen major cities in the United States and South America. They started appearing the 1980s and while there have been different suspects no one has been clearly identified as the creator of them
5YeRn TIL red spider lilies are poisonous and were planted near burial sites in Japan to prevent animals from digging up corpses. As a result the flowers are now associated with death, funerals, and the afterlife.
xa0o TIL: Britain was still paying off its WWII debts owed to America & Canada as recently as 2006. The last payment of $83.25 was wired to America 12/29/06; 6 years late, due to intermittent financial difficulties, having negotiated a 50 year payment plan in 1950.
X07Q6 TIL Elephants can’t jump. Unlike most mammals, the bones in elephant legs are all pointed downwards, which means they don't have the "spring" required to push off the ground.
yVYra TIL that the co-founders of the Guinness Book Of Records were the twins, Norris and Ross McWhirter. Ross would later be murdered by the I.R.A.