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TIL that for hand washing, regular soap is just as good as antibacterial soap

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KOyQ6 TIL about a British man who bought a ceramic pot at a junk sale for less than £4 and used it as a toothbrush holder until learning it was actually made in the Indus Valley of present-day Afghanistan about 4,000 years ago. It's thought the pot was originally brought to the UK by British tourists.
bNL0 TIL I learned the 27th Amendment, proposed in 1789, took over 200 years to be ratified; it was all but forgotten until a law student discovered it in 1982 and campaigned for its ratification.
pp9b TIL that your neighbor’s ham radio can interfere with your wifi signal, and that it is the ham radio operator’s responsibility not to mess up your wifi, and if they do, you can report them to the FCC and they can lose their license
PY5An TIL the MOS Transistor, which is responsible for launching technology into the digital age, is the most manufactured product in history clocking in at 13 sextillion (13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) produced since its invention in 1960
6Zbm TIL that “old-person smell’ is a real thing — Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia confirmed that elderly people really do have a distinct scent, so recognizable in fact that people can identify them by body odor alone.