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TIL in an attempt to reduce the cleaning cost, Amsterdam airport installed a pic of a fly in the urinals so guy can aim at it and avoid splashing the urine outside. It worked.

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VWKZ TIL in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States.
0YZj TIL Dyson Airblade hand-driers spread 60 times more germs than standard air dryers, and 1,300 times more than standard paper towels, according to research published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.
O5lY TIL Indiana State Congress once tried to legislate the value of Pi at 3.2 instead of 3.14159…
KOxJE TIL that a U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Command has documents that describes a plan for defending against zombies. It is used as a means of training students in military planning.
jNaMM TIL Hersheys successfully argued in a US court that the average American cannot read and is confused by packaging in the same colour.