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TIL if you flush with the lid up, germs will still be in the air 90 minutes later

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4XYR TIL 1 out of 2 males, and 1 out of 3 females will get cancer in their lifetime.
1aJKP TIL about George Ray Tweed, one of six men to refuse to surrender to the Japanese on Guam in 1941. 5 were captured & beheaded. He avoided capture for two years and seven months when the USA recaptured the island.
XEbLj TIL that although the Inca Empire was the largest and wealthiest empire in South America for a time, Inca society had neither a currency nor a concept of money. The economy was so well-planned that everyone had access to what they needed.
ggD7 TIL a stray cat named Humphrey was found and subsequently employed at 10 Downing street as a pest controller, eventually rising to the position of Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. After being removed by Cherie Blair, his whereabouts remained unknown until a spokesman reported his death in 2006
ADBy4 TIL Todd Rundgren did the music for Dumb and Dumber, one of the very few feature films that he did the score for.