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TIL the average gas pump handle is almost 12,000 times dirtier than the average public toilet seat.

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M7048 TIL a Chinese teenager defaced a stone sculpture in ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple with graffiti. An embarrassed Chinese traveller photographed it and shared on Weibo. It took just a day before outraged netizens tracked the teenager down in his hometown forcing his parents to apologize for him.
NXOWJ TIL the Sateré-Mawé tribe use bullet ant stings in a warrior rite where boys wear gloves filled with hundreds of venomous ants for 10 minutes, causing paralysis, hallucinations, and days of shaking, and must endure this 20 times to complete initiation.
GOV7 TIL that in WW2 English spies planned to make Hitler less aggressive by feeding him oestrogen, the female sex hormone. It would go unnoticed by his food testers because it was slow and subtle. The English spies were already close enough to Hitler to execute the plan, but it never went through.
VB6aG TIL that Lenore Zann, the voice actress for Rogue in the '90s X-Men cartoon and X-Men '97, served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada from 2019 to 2021.
xwMw TIL Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world