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TIL Kitchen sponges are dirty than a toilet seat

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OE0X TIL Zaftig is a Yiddish word, derived from German, that means “slightly fat in an attractive way”
N77dN TIL that traditional Japanese calendars have 24 15-day seasons split into 72 five-day microseasons. Right now is “Farmers drain fields,” followed by “Wild geese return” and “Chrysanthemums bloom.”
xVZZw TIL: An artist active in Grenada mounted dozens of realistic statues underwater to provide "habitat for filter-feeding organisms." The submerged sculpture garden Jason de Caires Taylor built gets visits from divers and tourists in clear-bottomed boats as well as tropical fish.
kOQg TIL AAA doesn’t care if you sign up for their membership on the side of the road… and that’s usually cheaper than calling a tow truck.
A9En TIL: Patty Cannon was the leader of a gang in the early 19th century that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.