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TIL drying hands is as important as washing them

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GYDM5 TIL That Lord Byron kept a pet bear in college. He did this via loophole abuse-the university forbade keeping dogs, meaning he couldn’t keep his beloved pet with him, but there was no mention of bears in their rules. He would even walk it around the grounds on a chain.
jNQav TIL that in 1939, the US army was ranked nineteenth in size in the world, behind Portugal and only slightly ahead of Bulgaria. Its equipment was obsolete, and it relied heavily on horses
xVmp1 TIL that it's "just deserts" not "just desserts". Besides meaning a sandy desert land, the noun form of 'desert' also means "a deserved reward or punishment".
Em6d TIL rats who were trained to press a lever for their food would stop pressing the lever once they saw that it would electrically shock other another rat
nQPr TIL of a horse named Jim who was used to make diptheria anti-toxin. One day Jim got tetanus and by the time anyone noticed 12 children who received his serum had died, leading to the creation of the 1902 Biologics Control Act.