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TIL that for a 2014 study, psychologists hung out in public bathroom stalls and watched under the door to see how long men and women spent washing their hands

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vyND TIL the total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the weight of all the humans on earth
bWYE TIL Bobby Murcer promised to hit a home run for a terminally ill young fan before a game in 1977—and he hit two of them! The announcers went nuts. There was only one problem—that’s how the boy found out he was dying.
wANP TIL A five-year review of dog-bite injuries from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, published in 2009 in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that almost 51 percent of the attacks were from pit bulls
1jA7 TIL there was a roman emperor who had been reported to be “delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles”, regularly wearing makeup and offering a vast sum of money to a physician capable of giving him a sex change
5xJB TIL that on average Greeks work for more hours than any other nationality in Europe.