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TIL the first text message was “Merry Christmas!”

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JYARm TIL: An observational study of hand washing after toilet use at an Infectious Disease conference found that compliance with hand hygiene after toilet visits was 84% for conference participants, 75% for members of the public, and only 46% for hospital staff.
NNv1 TIL Over 40M people of Irish descent are in the United States, 8x more than the population of Ireland.
4kBbN TIL that all people have hemorrhoids.
ovWA TIL Kari Byron was working for Jamie Hyneman’s company when on her first day was asked to model her butt for a 3D scan, landing her role on Mythbusters
0waPp TIL that when you see the writing credits for a movie, the word “and” between names means the writers worked separately and an ampersand (i.e., “&”) between names means they were a writing team.