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TIL women use much more toilet paper than men because they use it when they pee

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QlXk TIL: Unclaimed dead in NYC are buried in a mass grave on an island run by the Dept. of Corrections and staffed by convicts; Over 50,000 bodies are buried there and the press isn’t allowed to enter.
yVdmw TIL Hyenas and Wild dogs have been known to eat their prey alive, because of lions who will inevitably come to steal the prey. This might explain why zebras are highly skittish in nature.
m4Xy TIL the first time American troops fought under a foreign commander was during WW1. Despite being ordered to withdraw by their own command, they remained with their Australian and British allies, utilising combined arms to result in the very successful Battle of Hamel
R5bE7 TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"
60Al TIL Katharine Hepburn is the only actor/actress to win the Best Actor/Actress Oscar four times.