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TIL a study found that a petri dish exposed to public bathroom air for two minutes with the hand dryers off only grew one colony of bacteria, or none at all, whereas petri dishes exposed to the hot air from a hand dryer for 30 seconds grew up to 254 colonies of bacteria.

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TIL a study found that a petri dish exposed to public bathroom air for two minutes with the hand dryers off only grew one colony of bacteria, or none at all, whereas petri dishes exposed to the hot air from a hand dryer for 30 seconds grew up to 254 colonies of bacteria.

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TIL despite getting a major-league record of 33 hits in one game in 1932, the Cleveland Indians baseball team lost 17-18 to the Philadelphia Athletics. The combined quantity of hits from both teams (58) is also a single-game record. The game lasted 18 innings and took over four hours.

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Til that Matt Hannon, star of cult movie Samurai Cop, took part in an armed robbery stealing a Rembrandt painting from televangelist Gene Scott’s University Cathedral in Los Angeles. He was later arrested and sent to prison.

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