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TIL: Vladimir Lenin's body is preserved and on display

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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
rbw0 TIL Rams’ Coty Sensabaugh Got Married and Had Guests Make Donations of Shoes Instead of Gifts. Then They Spent Their Honeymoon In the Dominican Republic Handing Out The Shoes
R7LW7 TIL when a woman accidentally dropped her $4000 engagement ring in the cup of a street beggar, he did not sell it and instead returned it to her. In return, the woman raised $190,000 for him.
9wLVB TIL that during breastfeeding, a baby's saliva can flow back into the mother's breast, signaling her body to adjust the milk's immune components to meet the baby's specific needs, through a mechanism known as "retrograde milk flow"
7rvPX TIL that in the true story that inspired "A League of Their Own", the Rockford Peaches didn't finish the tournament in second place, but in dead last