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TIL that some of the boulevard medians in Milwaukee, Wisconsin have 8-10 ft deep bunkers with toilets in them, originally installed in the 1930s as a convenience for city workers who were out and about all day without access to a toilet

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8oNb TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson assisted DC Comics in selecting a real-life star that would be an appropriate parent star to Superman’s home planet Krypton. A red dwarf star in the constellation Corvus was chosen. Corvus is also Latin for “Crow” which is the mascot of Superman’s high school.
wKVJ TIL the word “lunatic” originally referred to someone who would become periodically insane with the changes of the moon - it literally means “moon-sick”
0ba1 TIL: there is a pub in Ireland that has been in operation for over 1000 years.
4kNna TIL that the shortest war in history was in 1896 between Britain and Zanzibar. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
j6KOE TIL that an Austrian village tired of the mockery changed its name from F*cking to Fuddging