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TIL that disabled people in the UK can get a universal key which works with disabled toilets around the whole of the UK (around 9,000+ toilets)

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JYdjQ TIL that medieval forests near inhabited areas were actually more managed then most forests today and functioned more like semi-wild gardens.
69R0X TIL Stephen Hawking enjoyed reading Leonard Mlodinow 's book "Euclid’s Window" so much that he invited him to coauthor, resulting in "A Briefer History of Time" and "The Grand Design". When waiting for Hawking's response, Mlodinow learned to slow down his thought processes and assess his own ideas
e0Q7k TIL that oil magnate J. Paul Getty, one of the richest humans in history, was so miserly that he laundered his own shirts by hand, reused envelopes and paper, made all the phones in his home coin-operated, and stood in line for hours for show tickets to save 50 cents
nnr9 TIL - There is a garden in Alnwick England which is dedicated entirely to flora which are deadly and/or narcotic
pYRaO TIL Ethiopia, Bhutan, Albania, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, and Costa Rica are the only countries and dependencies to have 100% renewable electricity generation