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TIL of the battle of changping which cost 1 million lives between 262BC-260BC

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E1K0o 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”
QJAre TIL that Lt. Pham Quang Khiem managed to escape South Vietnam in April 1975 with 53 relatives and friends by stealing a C-130a and flying to Singapore. They were later flown to Guam and then the US, where Pham became a pilot for US Airways. The C-130a is currently at the National Warplane Museum.
Dy6Y TIL that a 2009 study at two North American universities concluded that Shania Twain’s face possesses the ‘golden ratio'—or perfect distances—between a woman’s eyes and mouth that determines whether she is thought to be beautiful
KKk9 TIL that Kevin Vickers is not the first Canadian parliamentary Sergeant-at-Arms to stop a killing spree. In 1984, Quebec’s René Marc Jalbert went unarmed to the scene of a massacre in the National Assembly and persuaded the gunman to surrender
wPGM TIL: There is no evidence for the widely-held belief that the U.S. distributed smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That notion came from one professor who fabricated his research.