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TIL that bacteria are becoming more tolerant of hand sanitizers, but that regular hand washing with soap is a solution: “It's the physical action of lifting and moving them off your skin, and letting them run down the drain”

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rAZo TIL A 10 year old girl named Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address on it, which floated 140 miles and landed in the back yard of a house which also lived a 10 year old girl named Laura Buxton (as well as other eerie similarities).
1WB7 TIL the term Indian Giver stems from a cultural misunderstanding. Pilgrams thought they were getting gifts. Indians thought they were bartering.
kOkEe TIL that treason is the only crime defined in the United States Constitution, but it is almost never prosecuted.
KPn9 TIL professional hockey player Luke Piggott made a huge breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer, when he discovered how to kill breast cancer stem cells. He trains every morning with his team and then heads straight to the lab to conduct his cancer research.
v1R5R TIL that the only member of ZZ Top without a long beard is named Frank Beard