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TIL the World Toilet Organization was founded in Singapore with the mission to improve global sanitation and toilet conditions worldwide.

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a899 TIL Monty Python is the reason junk mail is called spam.
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yQwYX TIL In 1809, Ephraim McDowell performed the worlds first ovariotomy opening the door to abdominal surgery. Legend has it that a surly crowd gathered outside McDowell's home during the operation and waited to hang him on his patients certain death.
m1MGM TIL Brad Lee Davis was convicted of killing his stepfather, Davis St. Clair, with an "atomic wedgie" by pulling St. Clair's underwear over his back and head allowing the elastic band to wrap around his neck. Davis pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Y4Vv TIL that emporer penguins are over four feet tall, don’t eat for almost two months during incubation, and can dive up to 1,500 feet in search of fish. But that’s nothing compared to their ancestors who topped out at 6'8, nearly as large in height and weight to LeBron James.