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TIL Boogers contain salivary mucins, which forms a barrier on your teeth from bacteria that can cause cavities.

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m1njo TIL of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln. A Hungarian Of Jewish descent, he spent parts of his life as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.
j6Rgv TIL Kim Jong Il's birth name was Yuri Irsenovich Kim
78xdZ TIL the ex-Beatles drummer Pete Best later went on to release an album called Best of the Beatles which contained no music from The Beatles.
OGKOX TIL that after Top Gear ended, host Richard Hammond was so devastated, he cried all the way home from the studio and ran out of fuel, because he didn't want to fill his car up covered in tears
0w9Gp TIL that due to overproduction, American dairy farmers dumped more than 43 million gallons of milk into their fields in the first eight months of 2016. Enough to fill 66 Olympic swimming pools. Part of the problem is people are turning to dairy-free alternatives like almond milk and coconut milk.