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TIL Public toilet seats are U-shaped because the American Standard National Plumbing Code writes that they must have a gap at the front.

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gMGx7 TIL there is a little known island in New York City called Hart Island that has been used as a burial ground for poor or unidentified people for decades, and in 2012 Hurricane Sandy's heavy storm surge tore at its shore revealing hundreds of human bones.
1jX8 TIL that they caught the guy behind “The Fappening”. Ryan Collins, 36, accessed over 100 celebrities’ accounts by simply sending phishing e-mails to the victims. Prosecutors recommended that he received a jail sentence of 18 months.
d8Yl7 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson had no name for the first three months of his life. He was simply called "the baby" because his parents could not agree on a name, but one morning his mother refused to make breakfast until a name was agreed on. He was then named Lyndon Baines Johnson after a lawyer.
nW6lY TIL that the International Date Line was only discovered after Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world and discovered he "lost" a day compared to those who stayed in Spain.
kDKd TIL there was a movement post WW2 to make Sicily a US state. There were 40,000 people in Sicily who actively tried to do this, This was due to common family heritage and the fact Sicily was distinct from the rest of Italy.