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TIL that brushing your teeth before breakfast instead of afterwards is healthier, and that brushing your teeth right after eating acidic foods, like oranges, damages your teeth permanently.

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xkGw TIL The Vatican City is home to the world’s only ATM that gives instructions in Latin.
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W7NOL TIL Jerusalem is named after the Canaanite god of the setting sun and the nether world, as well as of health and perfection. Shalim is also identified as the deity representing Venus or the "Evening Star" and Shahar the "Morning Star."
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