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TIL There are insects which use superpropulsion to pee allowing them to eject accelerating pee that’s nearly 40% faster than their stylus ever moves by taking advantage of surface tension.

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X0kVR TIL Long-haul flights has secret rest area above the main cabin for flight attendants so that they can rest. The rest area has seven or eight beds, and occasionally a separate bathroom as well. They can also enjoy in-flight entertainment.
v1988 TIL despite playing ~2,350 live concerts over 30 years, there exists some form of a live recording of every Grateful Dead show except one: March 17, 1970. A reward is offered to anyone who can procure the lost tape.
ReXj TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons
QJ6Aa Today I Learned about Operation Legacy, a covert program by the British Foreign Office to destroy colonial documents in order to "avoid embarrassment". In 2011, victims of the British response to the Mau Mau Uprising helped unearth 20,000 of the surviving documents that were classified.
yQl0v TIL in 1687, the Parthenon in Athens exploded when it was hit by a Venetian mortar round in a war between Venice and the Turks. The building was being used by the Turks to store gunpowder. One account says the Turks did not expect the Venetians to target such a historic monument. 300 people died.