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TIL: Most mammals larger than a mouse take about 21 seconds to urinate

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pYYPO TIL in 1997 scientists successfully turned light into matter and antimatter
v1Vr7 TIL about Vincent van Gogh's death. He shot himself in the chest, missing vital organs, dying 30 hours later in a hospital with his brother Theo at his side, his last words having been "The sadness will last forever".
jk0v TIL that in the 19. century men used to wear detachable stiff collars. They were dubbed ‘father killers’ as they could cut off the blood supply to the carotid artery, causing the wearer to suffocate.
xVj90 TIL when their records stopped selling, Sonny and Cher performed a lounge act but it was so depressing, people started heckling them. Cher started heckling back. The heckling revived their act and they got offered a TV show in 1971, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, and reached a whole new peak of fame
QJD9e TIL the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC was opened by a signal relayed through the Viking I Mars Lander to a remote pair of scissors to cut the ribbon.