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TIL that you're not supposed to rinse your mouth (with water or mouthwash) after brushing your teeth. You're supposed to just spit out any excess toothpaste to enable the fluoride left behind on your teeth to do its thing.

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v1eM8 TIL that there was a conspiracy theory that Jimi Hendrix faked his death and became Morgan Freeman
gMEo7 TIL Cleopatra tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp was the least terrible way to die.
NNGe TIL that after the Bastille was stormed and demolished, some of its stones were carved into miniature versions of itself.
4XZ1R TIL that by 1983, the “Quartz Crisis” had decimated the Swiss watchmaking economy, which had 1,600 watchmakers in 1970 and eventually fell to 600.
VLM8 TIL That in the 2011 UK census “Jedi” was the 7th most popular religion, after Buddhism.