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TIL a study found that men wash their hands much less often than women after using the bathroom. 15% of men don’t wash their hands at all. Of those me. that did, only 50% used soap. 7% of women didn’t wash and 78% used soap.

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bPO4 TIL Alexander Graham Bell developed the metal detector as a last ditch effort to locate a bullet lodged in the chest of American President James Garfield in 1881; the attempt was unsuccessful because the metal coil spring bed Garfield was lying on confused the detector.
07Wp TIL that the SR 71 design could actually go to mach 6 speeds if it wasn’t for the material melting past mach 3.3
1apE7 TIL that the pastor who lead a campaign to end Southern Decadence Festival because of lewd public behavior, was later arrested for public masturbation.
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W77KA TIL between the time he murdered his wife and son and the time he killed himself, pro wrestler Chris Benoit attempted to reschedule his flight from Atlanta to Texas so he could perform at that weekend's WWE pay-per-view, where he was scheduled to face CM Punk for the ECW Championship.