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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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8OwG TIL sixty years ago, 10–20% of the Chinese population was short-sighted. Today, up to 90% of teenagers and young adults are.
QJoeE TIL Hippocrates believed that the natural processes of the body shouldn't be intervened. This philosophy carried into the late 1800s to the extent that development of pus was seen as positive indicator of healing because it was routinely found in all kinds of wounds. It was called "laudable pus".
Gw9E TIL that Lee Fierro, who played Alex Kintner’s mom in Jaws, went to a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard in 1999. After seeing an “Alex Kintner Burger”, she mentioned that she played the mother in that movie. The manager who went out to meet her was none other than Jeff Voorhees, who played Alex.
epxag TIL that as boxer Esteban De Jesus was dying from AIDS (a frightening disease at the time) in 1989, his fierce former rival Roberto Duran visited him, lifted him from his hospital bed and hugged him.
pRjb TIL of ‘Every Man Remembered’ an initiative of the British Legion to ensure every man and woman that died in WWI from across the commonwealth is remembered by someone alive today