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TIL: Starbuck's door handles are more germ-laden than NYC subway poles

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78orZ TIL that Veronica Lake had a pilot's license which she used to fly from Los Angeles to New York when she left her husband Andre DeToth in the airplane she bought for him.
LQpJZ TIL about the Oh-My-God particle; an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991. As of 2023 it is the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed and the time of its detection it was traveling at 0.9999999999999999999999951 times the speed of light.
JApj TIL: Japanese war criminal, Tojo Hideki, attempted suicide after the surrender. He was saved and resuscitated by Allied forces, who then hanged him.
LkLaV TIL about a vigilante from the 1970s who called himself captain sticky. He was a peanut butter and jelly themed crime fighter who had a car that squirted PB&J from the front that he would use to stop kids from stealing hub caps and making graffiti. He later started targeting shady businesses.
QJrgX TIL- 7-up originally contained Lithium