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TIL that 1 billion people a day crap in the street…

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R7amw TIL that because of a misunderstanding over the phrase "Cover me!", US Marines (working with the LAPD) shot over 200 bullets into a house while attending to a domestic dispute during the L.A riots in 1992.
Y7xjG TIL I learned that Kirkby's council (near Liverpool) created a ski slope in the middle of nowhere in 1973-74. By 1975 it was demolished after it was unsafe (and the slope was facing the sun).
x69bg TIL that one of the earliest hang gliders was invented in 1853 by George Cayley who created a slope-launched, piloted glider.
dD7l7 TIL the reason your mouth may feel gross after eating spinach is due to a chemical reaction called “spinach teeth”
RQe8 TIL Nowhere in the Bible does it say that exactly three magi came to visit the baby Jesus, nor that they were kings, or rode on camels, or that their names were Casper, Melchior, and Balthazar.