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TIL Up to 30% of US airport travellers don’t wash hands after using public restrooms

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Z8doY TIL if you feed canaries red peppers, they will change color.
QMea TIL After his death in 1942, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie’s wife brought his head home to London on an aeroplane in a hat box on her knee.
gNY7 TIL the former Prime Minister of Vietnam moved to Orange County after the war, where he opened and ran a liquor store
WkyVN TIL that cows were used for radiation testing of early cell phones. Farmers were paid to have high-powered phones strapped to their cows head 24/7. A single engineer worked full time to chase the cows and change the batteries.
588Q TIL researchers have found that people are more likely to engage in sexual and aggressive behaviors when drunk in societies where it’s commonly believed that alcohol intoxication leads to those behaviors; this phenomenon is known as the ‘think-drink effect’.