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TIL that latchkey incontinence is the phenomenon where the closer that one gets to the restroom, the more urgently one has to use the restroom

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LQQdV TIL that prehistoric humans found fossils and used them to decorate their stone tools. The oldest such fossil is in a knife made by Homo heidelbergensis 400,000 years ago.
LQXKv TIL spoonerisms are named after an actual person; The reverand Spooner. And that a spoonerism is quite often comical.
Brrpe TIL that Canada was the last colony in the New World to have been visited by a Jew. The first was a cross-dressing female sailor who was deported back to France when her gender and religion were discovered
7rJdM TIL In 2006, $8 million were stolen from the Banco Rio branch in Acassuso, Argentina. During the robbery, the robbers ordered pizza for the hostages, sang happy birthday to a female lawyer, and then left a note that said they stole 'money, not love' before escaping on a boat.
xVN61 TIL due to an oversight, Ohio wasn't officially admitted into the union as a state until 1953. As Congress never took a formal vote in 1803.