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TIL US hospitals originally banned the newly discovered techniques of cleaning surgical tools to prevent infections

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WkLw4 TIL that Walt Disney had a secret apartment built in Disneyland so he could watch the crowds in his theme park.
kJ6B4 TIL the West Shore Line railroad tracks go under a large portion of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY
YGaB TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia, one of the most significant scientific works in history, was nearly left unpublished, as the Royal Society had already spent all their funds printing the hugely unsuccessful ‘History of Fish’
697R8 TIL NFL running back Leonard Fournette has a younger brother named Lanard Fournette
1aLmO TIL of Amy Carter, President Jimmy Carter's daughter. Once, when asked whether she had a message for the children of America, she replied, "no." She later became an activist, protesting foreign policy towards South African apartheid, and CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.