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TIL Chlorox wipes are largely ineffective and need the surface to be wet for 4 minutes to disinfect.

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k8GW TIL China didn’t have fortune cookies until introduced 1993 and sold as “genuine American fortune cookies”
AD87n TIL that there is a cancer called Acral Melanoma that is common in dark skinned people, but isn’t caused by sun exposure. It forms in innocuous places like under the toenail - this was what caused the death of Bob Marley
V718 TIL Bernie Madoff will be released from jail on November 14, 2139, 130 years 279 days from his conviction date in 2009
rEw TIL there have been more than 2000 nuclear explosions worldwide. This is a time-lapse video of every detonation since 1945.
ynWX TIL when selecting a name for the rebellious son in The Simpsons, Matt Groening felt using his own name would be too obvious, so he went with an anagram of ‘brat’: Bart.