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TIL athletes are more likely to get cavities. Regular exercisers are “mouth breathers”, which causes plaque to dry on their teeth

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WeJB TIL Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring’s younger brother Albert despised Nazism, and offered active resistance to the regime, including helping prisoners escape from concentration camps. He was arrested four times, but Hermann secured his release each time.
PYaaV TIL in 2002, a woman won £13,000 in compensation from an airline after she was squashed by an obese woman during an 11-hour flight. When the plane landed, she had internal bleeding, severe bruising and torn leg muscles.
VMYYG TIL about Argument from poor design, an argument against the existence of a creator God, based on the reasoning that a powerful and benevolent God would not create organisms with suboptimal designs that can be seen in nature.
a8dKZ TIL that Mao Zedong’s great-grandson’s name is Mao Dongdong
jNeVX TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical, federally registered political party in Canada, received 1.01% of the popular vote in the 1980 federal election campaigning to repeal the law of gravity and provide higher education by building taller schools, among other promises.