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TIL Electrolysed water will kill spores and many viruses and bacteria and costs less than a penny per gallon. Turns out zapping salt water with low-voltage electricity creates a couple of powerful yet nontoxic cleaning agents.

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grmK4 TIL that Lenny Kravitz and Al Roker are second cousins
kZee TIL in 2005 the Powerball drawing produced 110 2nd-prize winners. The Multi-State Lottery Association thought it was fraud. It turned out the winners simply played the lucky numbers from their Wonton Food fortune cookies. The fortune read “All the preparation you’ve done will finally be paying off.”
K9E4 TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television
W708N TIL It's hokey-pokey in North America, Australia, and Ireland, hokey-cokey in the UK, and hokey-tokey in New Zealand
rWge TIL that Claudette Colvin was the first African American woman to refuse to move to the back of a bus nine months before Rosa Parks did, but the NAACP did not want to use her to represent their organization because she was 15 years old and pregnant.