Wow, Good to Know: summarized!

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As I mentioned in a recent post, I've been collecting a list of "surprising but important bits of life knowledge everyone should hear". I came up with a number of them myself, and got lots of good ideas on Facebook. I'm planning to share these (one at a time) with my students this fall, but I've also collected them together on the web. If anyone wants to suggest more ideas to add, I'm all ears! Here's the site:
Wow, Good to Know!

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[kuddliphish.livejournal.com]

Since you are looking for more I have a few cleaning type ones that are handy if nothing else.

Don't mix bleach and amonia--they react and create a toxic nerve gas.

Baking soda works really well for getting slug slime off of hands or other things. Soap is essentially useless against slug slime.

White vinegar is a great cleaning agent and mild disinfectant. I don't use it for all my household cleaning but I do like using it on the high chair and other baby things.