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TIL chemical engineer Dave Whitlock hasn’t bathed in more than 12 years. Instead, the MIT graduate sprays himself with live bacteria and is working with AOBiome, a company that uses naturally occurring bacteria in skin-care products to clean and eliminate odor and sweat.

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JYxpl TIL - Mozart has a pet starling (bird) which could sing part of his piano concerto in G Major. He had bought it from a shop after hearing it sing a phrase from a work he wrote six weeks previously, which had not yet been performed in public
epwdJ TIL: Some car commercials are done with CGI. This is done because these commercials are often shot before the cars have actually been manufactured. Also it’s much harder to move these cars to the shooting locations. They use a car called the Mill Blackbird for the CGI.
JY71B TIL that the Soviet secret police required that all domestic maps were intentionally faked/distorted and accurate maps were classified until the 1990’s.
OGM4a TIL that the US (22% of the UN budget), China (12.005%), Japan (8.564%) and Germany (6.090%) – together finance some 49% of the entire UN budget.
nWB89 TIL that commercial airline pilots wear uniforms resembling naval officers because Pan Am established this tradition with its fleet of flying boats. To align with the nautical nature, they adopted naval-style uniforms, a practice continued today