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TIL Pepper Spray is best washed out by initial baby shampoo (mixture wjth water) and then continuous, long rinse with pure water. Milk has been shown to not be as effective. Just water is better than nothing.

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wa8P TIL in 1935, to verify whether Coca-Cola was kosher, Rabbi Tobias Geffen was provided with its formula on the condition that he not disclose it. The Rabbi requested that the non-kosher beef tallow be substituted with a vegetable-based gylcerin, which was done, and the drink was declared kosher.
85X TIL Lobsters will become cannibalistic when in captivity and the rubber bands around their claws are there to keep them from eating each other
6ELOJ Today I learned that there's a building where you can see the sunset twice by seeing it on a low level and then taking the elevator quick to see it again. A very good way to shove flat earthers over the edge
KYbdR TIL that Jason Statham competed for England in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in diving.
jl5j TIL the satirist Willie Rushton once pranked the Victoria and Albert Museum by placing a label next to a plug socket that read “Plug hole designed by Hans Plug (b. 1908)” which remained in place for a full year, even fooling the cleaning staff who began using an extension cable.