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TIL that only 26% of men and 17% of women wash their hands after using the bathroom

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loNmV TIL that Phil Perry, performer of the "Goof Troop" theme song, was scheduled to perform a lunch-hour jazz concert to promote a new album inside the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
1ZrP TIL a 4 year old girl was the only survivor of a horrific plane crash in Detroit in 1987 because her mother shielded her before impact.
W5xL TIL that some cat breeds (called “puppy cats”) are bred specifically to exhibit dog-like behavior.
6EAal TIL over a hundred years ago, virtually every American city had public streetcars that people took to work. That includes cities we don't think of as hubs for mass transit today, like Atlanta, Raleigh, and Los Angeles. Today, just 5 percent of U.S. workers commute via via public transit.
R7Ea6 TIL that the three black lines along the side of school buses not only protect the side of the bus but also indicate where the floor line, bottom of the seat and top of the seat are.