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TIL a birthday cake after the candles were blown out has 1400% more bacteria than before the blowing

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jN7dE TIL George Washington tried to introduce a law that would force local governments to produce books detailing 'ghosts' in the area. He believed that by forging the existence of ghosts, it would make the United States seem as if it were a country with history. This is a practice that continues today.
lG5a TIL The Gates Foundation spends more on global health each year than the World Health Organization of the United Nations.
W7elX TIL Cap'n Crunch's real name is Horatio Magellan Crunch
164mD TIL that Annie Jump Cannon manually classified more stars in a lifetime than anyone else in history, reaching a staggering 350,000 in total. She discovered 300 variable stars, five novas, and one spectroscopic binary, creating a bibliography that included about 200,000 references.
8aPmb TIL about the Bonn-Oberkassel dog, the oldest undisputed dog fossil, which is over 14 thousand years old. A pathology of the remains indicates the dog was ill and would not have been able to live without intensive human care.