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TIL alcohol based hand sanitizers can cause severe intoxication in small children when absorbed through the skin.

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8e9yP TIL about a successful professional fisherman born without legs or hands, and uses no prosthetics (video in comments)
mxvao TIL that shortly after his parents divorce, Johnny Depp dropped out of high school to join a rock band full-time. After 2 weeks he attempted to return to school, but his principal stopped him and told him to continue following his his dream.
x6p6g TIL that in the Battle of the Nile, Admiral Francois-Paul Brueys's hands, face, and arms were mauled by cannonfire: he continued to command, when a cannonball severed both his legs. He then ordered his men to strap him to an armchair and continued to order his men until his ship, L'Orient, blew up.
Oow06 TIL about the "Iron Harvest". This is an annual event where people help unearth unexploded bombs from European conflicts, specifically WW1. Since 1946, over 600 civilians and ordnance collectors have died from these explosives.
x6E1 TIL that the first television program to show whites and blacks talking as equals was 1959’s Playboy Penthouse