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TIL that hand dryers when used in bathrooms can spread up to 23 times more bacteria than in bathrooms using paper towels.

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b9wj TIL the May 5, 1991 “Calvin and Hobbes” strip criticized the naming of The Big Bang as not evocative of the wonders behind it, and coined “Horrendous Space Kablooie,” an alternative that achieved some informal popularity among scientists and was often shortened to “the HSK.”
wL0GW TIL on June 3, 1980, seven tornadoes touched down in or near Grand Island, Nebraska
QNMP6 TIL: Goldfish can produce alcohol instead of lactic acid in low oxygen environments
E4GV TIL that in France, Germany, and Switzerland, it is illegal to deny that the holocaust happened
E1y9W TIL Joshua Trees are in the same taxonomic family as Asparagus and are therefore related