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TIL: washing your hands with hand sanitizer in hospitals is contributing to the development of deadly superbugs (bacteria)

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lo9G7 TIL Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. Readers initially assumed Jhabvala to be Indian because of her portrayals of the nuances of Indian lifestyles. Later, the revelation of her true identity led to falling sales of her books in India
OoE67 TIL that during WWI influenza sickened 26% of the US Army—more than one million men—and killed almost 30,000 before they even got to France.
QmVd TIL that in 2008, Hancock outgrossed Iron Man by almost 40 million. One of them never got the sequel while the other one spawned a decade long multi-billion dollar franchise.
5Ep TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only US president to take on a full grown cougar with only a knife.
6bGQ TIL that pygmy chimpanzees often engages in 69s, gay- and lesbian sex, and they also celebrate finding food with orgies.