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TIL - Using cold water to shave is superior in many ways to hot water

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OORX TIL that banks have therapists known as ‘wealth psychologist’ who help ultra-rich clients who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.
kkZd TIL W.T. Stead, a Victorian investigative journalist writing about child prostitution, bought an underage sex slave to prove how easily it could be done. He was sent to prison.
awNjb TIL that the Old City of Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites on Earth for Christians, Muslims and Jews, is less than half a square mile in area. Central Park in NYC is 1.3 square miles.
nWDbo TIL that all diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob and fatal insomnia, have a perfect 100% mortality rate. There are no cases of survival and these diseases are invariably fatal.
x6N1o TIL that the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, went to the same school as Winston Churchill