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TIL that the actual reason that toilets have a half flush and full flush is because half is for only for liquids and full is for solids. Never realised that until now.

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p8A7p TIL in 2009 2nd baseman Eric Bruntlett made errors on back-to-back pitches putting runners on 1st & 2nd. He then made an unassisted triple play to end the game
vPv7x TIL that Hugo Gutmann, Hitler's commanding officer in WW1 who recommended him for the Iron Cross, was Jewish. He was later granted special exemption from anti-Jewish laws and permitted to emigrate to the US.
loyya TIL that a flight had to make an emergency landing because fire alarms went off, but it was actually just a bunch of goats farting.
Eg05d TIL the male member of Boney M died on the same date and in the same city as Rasputin, the subject/title of the groups international hit.
rNyZ4 TIL (Actually at least yesterday) about obelisks, which form their own distinct phylogenetic group and whose genetic code doesn't share features with any other life form