› added 9 years ago

173

TIL disposable toilet seat covers are meant to have the flap fall in the front of the bowl. This is to prevent penis to porcelain contact or urine splash back.

Read more poopingproblems.com

via reddit.com

JlrB TIL a man rescued a dying crocodile, looked after it, tried to release the croc into the wild, but the croc kept coming back. The two became ‘best friends’ and for the next 20 years, Chito (man) used to get into the water to SWIM, KISS, HUG, PLAY with ‘Pocho’ the 5-meter, 450kg croc.
waEM TIL that a soccer ball that was on board Space Shuttle Challenger, was recovered, and is now in orbit around Earth aboard the International Space Station
awwbA A battle of resolution
kW11 TIL: The city of Los Angeles is the 3rd most productive oil field in the U.S., but most of the oil wells are camouflaged inside of fake office buildings and even sculptures.
lorV1 TIL Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London's sewers in the 1860's, said 'Well, we're only going to do this once and there's always the unforeseen' and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960's (its still in use today).