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TIL Washing your hands with plain soap is probably better than using antibacterial soap in the long run

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Z8yyB TIL that one of the earliest uses for the term Round Robin was a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified, a mutiny on a ship for example.
v7mB TIL that 1.7 billion years ago, there was a natural nuclear reactor that ran for a few hundred thousand years.
GAkPj TIL On Christmas Eve 1969, Francisco Macias Nguema had 186 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo with the executioners dressed as Santa Claus, with the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song "Those Were the Days".
VM6MG TIL King Zog of Albania survived 55 assasination attempts
9onm TIL that wild Parrots actually name their children, and that name sticks for life.