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TIL that washing your hands with regular soap and water removes bacteria mechanically and is as effective as antibacterial soap.

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eMM5 TIL: In 2005, a group of MIT students wrote a program, SCIgen, to generate fake academic papers, with 16 published by Springer and over 100 by IEEE. These papers were presented over 30 conferences between 2008 and 2013.
4XQdJ TIL The Pirate voice. comes from one person, from Robert Newton's performance in Treasure Island in 1950, an exaggeration of his Cornwall accent.
Ov9g TIL New Yorkers bite 10 times more people than sharks do worldwide
gMW84 TIL Jackie Chan once fled to the USA to avoid Hong Kong triads. He claims they once shot at him while he was getting off of a plane and that he later was surrounded by "more than 20 people ... with melon knives ... [I] confronted them with two guns and six grenades".
voJ8 TIL African continent is being split into two due to the birth of a new ocean. In 2005, an 8 meter wide and 60km long stretch of the earth opened up over a period of just ten days.