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TIL that a “Gay Face” is scientifically verifiable.

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0YZj TIL Dyson Airblade hand-driers spread 60 times more germs than standard air dryers, and 1,300 times more than standard paper towels, according to research published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.
4dWo TIL Queen Elizabeth does not hold a passport. Since all British passports are issued in the queen’s name, she herself doesn’t need one. She just has to say that she is the queen.
XEdQr TIL that the Challenger hemi is rarer than most exotic cars - only 47 Hemi Challengers were made in 1971.
KOBQw TIL one of the longest running civil wars in the world is the Karen Conflict, which has been going on since 1949 between the Burmese/Myanmar government and the Karen minority nationalists in Karen State, Myanmar.
0w1eN TIL in 1987 Walter Payton who played for the Chicago Bears, accidentally shot a man in the knee while holding a collectors handgun that he was unaware of being loaded.