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TIL A University of Arizona study found 72% of shopping carts contain fecal bacteria and there is more fecal bacteria on a shopping cart handle than in a typical bathroom.

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6EOZ TIL that in 2003, a German citizen was kidnapped by the CIA and beaten, stripped, violated and tortured - until they found out they had the wrong guy.
nejGY TIL that in the UK April Fools' Day ends at noon
JYnaQ TIL During the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, the Girl Scouts helped by cooking and delivering meals to patients throughout the city. They are credited with saving the lives of people too poor to afford doctors and preventing malnourished children from succumbing to influenza.
4Qw6 TIL That slaves were forbidden from owning musical instruments as they were used to communicate. Congo Square in New Orleans was the only place slaves were allowed to gather every Sunday, to trade, sing, dance and play music. this led to the birth of Jazz
OGJKY TIL about the medical "interventions," more accurately experiments on "prisoners" in British India for malaria, cholera, typhoid, & plague. In one incident, Muslim prisoners fasting for Ramadan were forcibly given weekly doses of quinine for malaria treatments.