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TIL Canada has specifically banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering the country.

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GxnJ TIL drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45-60% rather than by using a hand dryer, which will increase it by 255%. This is because the dryer blows out bacteria living in the conveniently warm, moist environment
1aZO TIL on September 21, 1997, a crew member aboard the USS Yorktown accidentally divided by zero and caused a systems failure that stopped the propulsion of the ship.
drwE TIL Queen Victoria was fluent in Urdu and Hindi.
BgKRK TIL After Stephen Hawking died, his nurse faced multiple misconduct charges. She was barred from practising because she failed to provide appropriate care, following a hearing behind closed doors
1aJR8 TIL modern Hard Disk Drives have read/write heads that float 4 to 5 nanometers above the surface of the disk while it spins. For scale, a human hair is 80,000-100,000 nm thick.