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TIL Vin Diesel Is the voice of the Iron Giant

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D7Ng TIL that Aztecs took two showers a day and used flowers as soap and cleaned their mouth with them as well. The Spaniards at the time avoided water because it was thought water on your skin made you more susceptible to the plague and they used urine to clean their mouths and teeth.
kO65d TIL in the United States, 90 percent of the population resides within 10 miles of a Walmart store
78MbM TIL Bob Marley was never nominated for a Grammy. However, he has 2 albums (Catch a Fire & Exodus) and 3 singles (“Get Up, Stand Up,” “No Woman, No Cry,” & “One Love”) in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
oBNEA TIL hand soap doesn't actually kill the germs. Instead, it weakens the structure they're holding onto you so that you can wash them right off.
p8WZ4 TIL the Guinness World Record for highest fall without a parachute is held by Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian flight attendant who was the only survivor after a bomb went off on a commercial flight over Czechoslovakia in 1972. She fell 10,160 metres (33,330 ft) and recovered fully aside from a small limp.