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TIL Antiperspirant works best when applied at night, before bed. The antiperspirant compounds have time to be absorbed overnight and won't be washed away by a morning shower.

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kOyOW TIL that Americans spend around $72B in lottery tickets every year, with the chances of winning being less likely than getting attacked by a shark, being killed by a vending machine, being elected president, being struck by lightning, coming down with the plague, or being killed by a falling coconut
R5lXw TIL Chico Bouchikhi of Gipsy Kings, Brother was assassinated by Mossad agents in a small Norwegian town due to a case of mistaken identity.
R7GM1 TIL that after sex, female armadillos can delay the implantation of the fertilized egg, choosing at will when to actually become pregnant.
xZ17 TIL Chicago illegally shortened their yellow lights by .1 second, which increased their ticket revenue $8 million over 6 months
gMa8W TIL in 2017 raccoons and chimps were put through the Aesop's Fable test, to see if they could learn to displace water to get food from a container. Many succeeded: the raccoons used their hands to manipulate the container in creative ways, and one chimp simply peed into the container (which worked).