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TIL that the cotton in your pill bottles should always be thrown out. Once they were used to stop medication from knocking about the bottle and crumbling, but are now coated to avoid this. Today, the cotton ball can only serve as a moisture trap that may compromise your medications/vitamins.

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XX1P TIL there is a species of mite that lives on your face that has no Anus and collects poo throughout its life, when it dies it “explodes” with waste
xGVg TIL that in the 1854 New York World’s Fair, Elisha Otis amazed a crowd when he ordered the only rope holding the platform on which he was standing cut. The rope was severed by an axeman, and the platform fell only a few inches before coming to a halt and the elevator industry was on its way.
ONL6 Montreal’s subway trains use brake shoes made from wood soaked in peanut oil. They are quieter and don’t wear out metal wheels as much as more conventional alternatives.
woDG1 TIL When musician Prince died, he left behind a vault containing nearly 8,000 unreleased songs but he had forgotten the combination. Measuring 6 1/2 feet tall, several feet wide, and weighing 6,000 pounds, the massive vault required a professional safecracker to break into it
djv7 TIL after Officials in Richmond, California, learned that 70 percent of the city’s murders and firearms assaults were directly linked to 17 people, they decided to pay them to behave. With individual coaching, health care coverage and a monthly stipend, murders decreased from 62 to only 11 last year