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TIL that alcohol-based hand sanitizers don’t kill norovirus, the highly contagious “winter vomiting disease” that sickens 685 million people per year.

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XD0j TIL that ~47% of Italians are functionally illiterate
Do9e TIL Ocean thermal energy conversion, a technology invented at the end 19th century, has the potential to satisfy twice the global electricity demand without affecting the temperature of the ocean or the world’s environment.
jNxYn TIL that the actor who played Immortan Joe - the main antagonist in Mad Max: Fury Road - also played Toecutter, the main antagonist in the original Mad Max movie.
VMww0 TIL that many countries used "Immurement" as a form of punishment, where the victim was locked in a box and left to starve to death. The latest usage was in 1914, where a Mongolian woman left in a wooden crate died of dehydration.
N7A1Q TIL an 9 foot alligator clamped onto the leg of 10-yr-old Florida girl Juliana Ossa. She thought of a plan she'd learned in "Gatorland" where she saw a guy wrestle a gator with its mouth taped. The situation was reversed, so Juliana stuck her fingers up the gator's nose, and it released her leg.