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TIL Scientists Say A Fleet of 1500 Cloud-Seeding Ships Could Cheaply and Efficiently Stop Global Warming

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R5Mv6 TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch
Y79Vr TIL that the world's oldest known wooden wheel is over 5,000 years old. Discovered in 2002 in Slovenia, this ancient artifact dates back to between 3,350 and 3,100 B.C., providing insight into early human innovation.
WN1d TIL American males had a better survival rate than British males on the Titanic due to the British acting as gentlemen and acting ‘British’
EJXP TIL that in the late 1600s London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout “Spanko!” before running away
8eA8V TIL George Michael have 10 no.1 hits songs on Billboard Hot 100 including 2 from Wham! (former band) and he wrote (except Careless Whisper with Andrew Ridgely) and produced them all by himself.