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TIL All the actors who played the original nine companions of the Fellowship of the Ring got a tattoo of the Elvish number nine, except John Rhys-Davies who got his stunt-double to get it

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m7mR TIL disinfectant doesn’t kill 99.9 of the amount of germs, 99.9 percent refers to the variety of germs.
R5Ny7 TIL of Cottonclads, a class of lightly armed Confederate river ships armored with cotton bales. They used sharpshooters and rams as their main weapons, dropping the gangplanks down to board Union ships. They were used effectively at the Battle of Galveston, capturing the Harriet Lane.
N76p1 TIL the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang , a leftist breakaway of the main Kuomintang, is one of eight registered minor political parties in the People's Republic of China and is seen as second in status to the Communist Party of China.
VngB TIL that Native Americans are systematically denied access to the voting system, thus excluding them from the democratic process
aXnL TIL many major cities in Europe offer ‘Sanisettes’: private, self-contained, self-cleaning, public bathrooms. After the user has exited, a wash cycle begins and the entire floor and toilet fixture are automatically sprayed, scrubbed and disinfected.