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TIL a shower should only be 5-10 minutes long

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16alX TIL that Tom Hanks is related to Mister Rogers and 16th US President Abraham Lincoln
Z9Xv TIL that on the set of Hook, Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins played Hook and Smee as if they were a gay couple. When Spielberg found out, he was furious.
yQxYe TIL The earliest recorded epidemic dates back to the Peloponnesian War, 430 BC. he ancient Greek historian Thucydides described the symptoms of a disease believed to be typhoid fever. Known as the Great Athenian Plague, it killed about 100,000 people, or two-thirds of the population there.
P1J4J TIL about Sikh Nation - the largest blood donation campaign run by Canadian Sikhs to commemorate the tragic loss of thousands of lives in India’s anti-Sikh genocide in 1984. It has saved more than 160,000 lives and spread to 27 communities across the country since it began in 1999.
GYQJ1 TIL: NYC yellow cabs and livery cars have a 4.5-inch amber flasher (aka a "trouble light") on the rear. Its serves as a way to alert outsiders that they are feeling threatened. It's like their version of a silent alarm banks use.