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TIL drying hands is as important as washing them

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mNWM TIL On October 23, 1999, BASE jumper and stuntwoman Jan Davis made a protest jump off El Capitan to lift Yosemite’s BASE jumping ban. She died in the process. The ban remains intact.
NXPn8 TIL: Many cats have a common form of alopecia called preauricular alopecia or facial alopecia, which causes the thinning hair between the ears and eyes that you often see in felines
yVb5a TIL that Subbotnik is a day in Russia when people in many cities volunteer to clean the streets, a tradition that began after the Russian Revolution and persists today.
x6LQ5 TIL about John McSherry, a MLB umpire who died during an opening day game between the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos
D1kLJ TIL: Jean Meslier (1664-1729) was a French Catholic priest, actually an atheist, who left after his death an entire book criticizing religion