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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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6vv7 TIL that in 1908 the Imperial Russian Olympic Team arrived to London 12 days too late for the games because they were not using the Gregorian calendar yet.
rRMax TIL Norway formally annexed about one-fifth of Antarctica in 2015
Zp5pQ TIL 17th century England had twerking ("Moulding Cockle Bread" dancing) and moral panics about twerking.
NPYQ TIL that Target (yes, that Target) runs a state of the art crime lab, one of only twelve accredited private labs in the world, on its corporate campus in Minnesota. It often provides outside assistance to law enforcement at no charge and has been involved in a number of high profile cases.
m1pLP TIL About the Tsavo Man Eaters. A pair of male lions who systematically hunted and killed Railway Workers in 1898.