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TIL that most American toilets don’t have the piss-flush option.

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kOvAm TIL that Donnie Dunagan, a retired United States Marine Corps drill instructor, managed to keep secret - throughout his entire career - that he was a voice actor in the Walt Disney's Bambi film, providing the voice of young Bambi.
M7xgb TIL the derogatory meaning of 'snake oil salesman' originated to describe people who sold counterfeit snake oil when actual snake oil was widely accepted to be a legitimate medicine.
QROe TIL A defense lawyer (who was also a congressman) in a murder trial accidentally shot himself and died while reenacting the possibility of a victim accidentally shooting and killing themselves instead of his client; the defendant was then set free.
ep5YJ TIL of 20-year-old Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain, who was tortured to death in 2017 by six students at his university after he was accused of stealing from one of them. The students took turns pressing a steam iron against his skin, causing burns over 80% of his body.
BgLBL TIL the cost to procure a drone for US Dept of the Interior ballooned from $2,600 in 2020 to $15,000 in 2023 (page 6)