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TIL that washing your hands with good old soap and water is better than alcohol hand sanitiser at protecting you from catching Norovirus (winter vomiting bug)

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d801Q TIL that ancient Spartan schools deliberately underfed boys to force them to steal food, but severely punished anyone who was caught. This was thought to toughen them up, especially since it accustomed them to hunger, which was common on the battlefield.
R58K9 TIL Oreos are vegan. The “cream” filling is essentially vegetable oil and sugar.
oBMao TIL: The D in D-Day actually means.. day. Day-Day.
Y7aPW TIL Singapore imports so much sand that Indonesia has actually lost islands- Indonesia counts its islands before it's too late
nWl4G TIL that after enjoying success with the violent and groundbreaking first-person shooter game "Wolfenstein 3D" (1992), games developer id Software licensed their 3D engine to "Super 3D Noah's Ark", a Christian video game that features Noah shooting food at animals inside his ark.