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TIL Hydrogen Peroxide is not recommended for cuts/wounds and actually slows healing by killing the healthy skin cells

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nWpO9 TIL that the Knights Hospitaller, One of the many Catholic military orders that fought in the Crusades, exists today and briefly had an air force.
4Xgy6 TIL There is a liquid that you can breathe in called perfluorohexane. Animals can be submerged in a bath of perfluorohexane without drowning. It is odorless and colorless.
E1WpX TIL that KFC released a romance novella set in Victorian England called 'Tender Wings of Desire', featuring Colonel Sanders as a 'man of passion' and fierce love interest for the protagonist
0xZN TIL The SEC was repeatedly and explicitly warned about the Madoff Ponzi scheme for 10 years by a forensic accountant. Over and over again they ignored the warnings and did nothing.
QJG7M TIL the world's first movie rental store was opened in Germany in 1975. The store is still open today, and owned and operated by the same person over 40 years later.