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TIL that the Japanese word for wisdom teeth literally means "unknown to parents" because wisdom teeth generally erupt long after a person has gained independence and left their childhood home.

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XEZZj TIL turkeys were always presented to presidents to be killed for their Thanksgiving meals. Then in 1989 George HW Bush became the first to pardon a turkey instead.
groW7 TIL that canned tuna (and other fish) contains small doses of mercury (the poisonous metal found for example in old thermomethers)
4k9xX TIL because of her mental illness history & how she presented early on, a woman catatonic for 20 yrs wasn't tested for an autoimmune disease until a doctor who was there when she was first admitted in 2000, came across her again in 2020. This led to her lupus diagnosis & treatment which woke her up.
Yyjv TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk, and despite there being 100 staff on the same floor in the department no-one realised he was dead for 2 days.
woxbo TIL that the oldest human to ever live, Jeanne Louise Calment, smoked until she was 119— she only quit because she went blind and was too proud to ask for help lighting up.