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TIL That Psycho is the very first movie to ever a show a toilet.

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R1ol TIL: The Popular Simon & Garfunkel lyric “Hello darkness, my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again” refers to Simon’s preference to write music while sitting on the toilet in the dark.
Z6Aa TIL The camera on the Blackbird was so advanced that when it took a photo of a car on the ground that was 80,000 feet below it and the plane traveled at over 2,000 mph, the license plate would be visible in the photo.
o0b7 TIL the man who invented the Super Soaker and the Nerf gun, invested his fortune in R&D and has created ceramic solid state batteries with 3 times the power of the best lithium-ion batteries
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