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TIL Copper surfaces can reduce hospital infections

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KYKdJ TIL Jingle Bells is actually a thanksgiving song!
MV1W TIL Only 22% of the population have the autosomal genes required to smell the odor that asparagus gives urine.
YpjB TIL that black people saying “aks” instead of “ask” is a ‘Recency Illusion’: the use of “aks” in place of “ask” dates back to the 1600s and Middle English, and is not a recent development.
kOYbd TIL There is an infantry style rocket launcher that carries a nuclear payload called the "Davey Crockett"
graRD TIL that in 1976, when the NBA was merging with the ABA, Ozzie and Daniel Silna turned down an offer to sell their ABA team for $3.3 million. Instead, they negotiated a deal to receive a share of the NBA media rights in perpetuity. Through this deal they eventually earned about $800 million.