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TIL: Inadequate hand washing contributes to nearly 50 percent of all food borne illness outbreaks.

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XEBw8 TIL Betsy Palmer only agreed to play the killer Mrs. Vorhees in Friday the 13th because she needed a new car, even though she believed the film to "be a piece of shit".
A9pn TIL A Holocaust Survivor enlisted in the U.S Army, he was later taken P.O.W and kept him and his unit alive by sneaking out and stealing food, a skill he learning while in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
pWB4 TIL in the 1960s. The CIA created several fake cover-up companies to purchase Titanium from the Soviet Union. Titanium being a crucial element in the production of SR-71 Blackbirds. Subsequently helping Lockheed Martin’s Secret Black Project called “Skunk Works”. The SR-71 served from 1964 to 1998.
E9Bd TIL - President Franklin D Roosevelt received a truckload of Yuengling beer delivered to the Whitehouse the day prohibition was ended.
69npW TIL about the 1033 Program. A defence logistics scheme to send extra military equipment to civilian law enforcement.