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TIL: A typical kitchen sponge has about the same bacterial density per cm as an average human stool.

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YY7Z TIL of a 12 year old boy, Hunter Scott, who in the course of doing a history project for school, found enough evidence to lead to a Congressional investigation that ended up exonerating a US Navy ship’s captain for wrongdoing, 55 years after his court martial.
mXlo TIL that Ronald Reagan, suffering from Alzheimers, would rake leaves for hours, not realizing that they were being constantly replenished by his Secret Service men
p8ANN TIL about nine out of ten Lincoln Town Car buyers were over the age of 65.
LW4Q TIL there is a modern Australian interpretation of Macbeth where the title character is a high ranking gang member in Melbourne’s underworld who tries to kill his crime boss. The prophetic vision shown to Macbeth by the three witches is depicted as a drug induced trip at a night club.
XvrQ TIL that in 1968, a bomber carrying 4 nuclear weapons crashed over an icy bay in Greenland. The recovered debris only accounted for 3 out of the 4 weapons, and searches for the missing bomb under the ice were unsuccessful.