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TIL There's a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment because the explorers were unimpressed with the view at the top.

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yVopM TIL about pig toilets. "A pig toilet (sometimes called a "pig sty latrine") is a simple type of dry toilet consisting of an outhouse mounted over a pigsty, with a chute or hole connecting the two. The pigs consume the feces of the users of the toilet, as well as other food."
xeQg TIL that the Mystery Flavor of Dum Dums lollipops is a mixture of two flavors that come together when the end of one batch of candy meets the beginning of the next batch. Thus, the Mystery Flavor continually changes.
x6JAo TIL human sweat is the most extreme and distinctively human evolutionary trait as a whole.
8PrL TIL Tuition for the year at Ivy league UPenn in 1950 was only $625, grad school $525, law school $625, med school $725. $625 is $6,055.60 in today’s dollars. Actual cost today is $45406, $29342, $54992, $52430.
X0E48 TIL 250 people in the US have cryogenically preserved their bodies to be revived later.