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TIL There are "non-sterile" topical antiseptics (skin sanitizers)

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xVBwD Today I learned scientists have been able to track the history of the AIDS virus. Through research they believe 'patient zero' lived Cameroon in Africa, and contracted the disease around 1908, after hunting a chimp and being infected with SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus)
6Wd7 TIL when the invading Philip of Macedon sent this message to Sparta - “You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city”, they sent back a one word reply - “If”
rRNRd TIL that the War of the Golden Stool was fought because a European governor wanted to sit on a sacred stool.
PYVJn TIL that Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev is a Grammy Award winner
0dP6p Today I learned that Stephen Duncan, the largest slaveholder during the civil war (and second overall in US History) was actually pro-unionist and was ostracized by the confederates he lived with in Mississippi