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TIL Washing your hands with cold water is just as effective at removing harmful bacteria as washing them with hot water.

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N7vl1 TIL Uranus spins on its side. Most likely because something crashed into it.
xVWag TIL Guy's Grocery Games is shot in a made for TV grocery story with 10 aisles stocked with 20,000 items including fresh meats, seafoods, produce and baked good which are donated to local food banks each week, nearly 30k lb per season.
4Nj6 TIL of Anatoliy Golitsyn a KGB agent who defected to the US in 1961. He claimed the Soviets planned a long term deception strategy to lull the West into a false sense of security by appearing to break apart predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall, formation of the EU and financial problems in the US.
rRPlw TIL that Basque, although considered to be a language isolate, actually had a predecessor in the form of Aquitanian, which died out almost 2,000 years ago.
W7eLL TIL that the first Unmanned underwater vehicle was created by the United States in 1957 to explore Arctic waters.