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TIL: There is a museum of toilet in New Delhi named Sulabh International Museum Of Toilets. It features rare collection of toilets from 2500BC up to today and gives a view of evolution of toilet related social custom, sanitary habits and technology and shows how deep rooted a simple toilet is.

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JYxQ8 TIL in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), when first Darth Vader force chokes the imperial officer, he interrupts him saying the words "hidden fortress". This is a nod to The Hidden Fortress (1958), an Akira Kurosawa film set in Feudal Japan which Star Wars is based on. (timestamped link in comments)
MeByK TIL about Lizzie Velásquez, a woman unable to gain weight. The 31yo is a motivational speaker and YouTuber, and she’s never weighed more than 64 lbs due to an extremely rare genetic disorder.
N0D8 TIL Russian cruise missiles form p2p networks, hunt in packs and elect an Alpha to lead them. Oh and they’re 40 years old and still in use.
A1B4 TIL that humans empathetically experience pain when they see someone of the same race experience pain, but not someone of another race. All races felt pain when shown a “violet” person experiencing pain suggesting that lack of empathy for other races is learned and not innate.
gM6Lb TIL that in 2011, it was discovered by police that the 26 life-sized "dolls" that Russian academic Anatoly Moskvin kept in his apartment each contained a child's corpse. He had dug them up, planning to resurrect them through magic, and built the dolls to give them a body for their resurrection.