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TIL Your cell phone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat. Here's what to do about it

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OGP0Y TIL that only $2 was budgeted toward safety training for the crew of MV Sewol, the South Korean passenger ferry which sank in 2014 killing 306 people. This was used to pay for a paper certificate.
vP6QD TIL that Abraham Lincoln's supporters called themselves 'Wide Awakes'
N7AXE TIL 60's social activist Abbie Hoffman and author of Fuck the System ,Revolution for the Hell of It, and Steal This Book , had an FBI file that was 13,262 pages long. or, about 11 times that of Tolstoy's War and Peace
69bgQ TIL Actor Thomas Jane's (The Punisher, Deep Blue Sea, The Expanse) first acting role was at the age of 16 as the male lead in an Indian romantic comedy called "Padamati Sandhya Ragam". His payment was an RV featured in the film.