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TIL cellphones are 10 times dirtier than toilet seats

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YYaG TIL Generation Y officially buys more books than baby boomers
ymel TIL Scientists in the Netherlands are developing an ocean cleaning system which uses the ocean’s currents and a barrier to remove plastic waste. A 100 km long system will be deployed in 2020 to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
kO5b5 TIL The 1939 classic Gone with the Wind was the highest grossing movie in history until the Sound of Music broke the box office record in 1966. When Gone with the Wind was re-released in 1971 it regained the top spot until The Godfather sent it to "sleep with the fishes" the next year.
6Yl7 TIL: a 2012 study showed that men who treat women the same as they treat other men, are seen as overwhelmingly sexist by both men and women.
wkRo TIL that between the 14th and 17th century, Europe was prone to incidents of “Dancing Mania” where up to thousands of people danced erratically for days, weeks, or months. Many collapsed from exhaustion; some died.