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TIL That foaming hand soap has been found to be less effective than regular liquid hand soap at removing bacteria

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Z8M54 TIL a railroad in Britain with a bad public image hired a 15 year-old to run it's twitter account, with great results.
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GAp9E TIL the City of Boston has border collies that scare off geese in the esplanade along the Charles River to prevent them from nesting.
a8N5N TIL in North Carolina, it is a class 3 misdemeanor to ‘use profanity on the highway’
16xVD TIL that the voices in Pingu were all done by one Italian voice actor who was doing a parody of the Milanese dialect