› added 6 years ago

340

TIL that bathroom hand dryers suck fecal bacteria from the room and sprays it directly on your hands.

Read more usatoday.com

via reddit.com

KYlmQ TIL: The Cia Cia language, an Austroniasian language spoken in Buton, an island in Indonesia, is written in the Korean alphabet (Hangul).
5VYYp TIL that sportscaster Jack Whitaker was banned from The Masters for six years after referring to fans as a "mob". Spectators at The Masters are referred to as "patrons". Augusta president Clifford Roberts said "We don’t have mobs at Augusta" and demanded that CBS remove Whitaker from the broadcast.
6Egl7 TIL Pres. Teddy Roosevelt was given strong coffee and puffs of cigar as a child to 'help' with his asthma. As an adult his coffee drinking became legendary and he drank up to 40 cups/day. His son, Theodore Jr., remarked that his father's ideal coffee cup might be "more in the nature of a bathtub"
9YRrB TIL: You gag when someone else barfs because we lived in packs and ate the same food, so when someone gets sick and vomits, it was advantageous for all the rest to do the same.
MDe7 TIL The olympic flame has gone out at least 44 times in Russia.