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TIL that gum disease can be associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and that Alzheimer’s is associated with markers from oral bacterium P. gingivalis

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e0lK5 TIL that King George V’s physician gave the dying king a lethal dosage of morphine and cocaine to hasten his death so that it could be announced in the morning edition of The Times rather than “less appropriate evening journals.”
0dX1j Today I learned that General Mills, the cereal company, used to have an electronics division that, in 1953, created the “black box” found in today’s airplanes.
ObK4 TIL the 12 days of Christmas refers to the 12 days following Christmas, not the 12 days preceding Christmas
Ne7M TIL There is a small island in the US state of Virginia. Its in inhabitants speak the same language as its settlers in 1686-some linguists consider it the closest surviving accent to Shakespearean English
0d8Yy TIL that people who attempted suicide have extremely high rates of heart problems compared to the general population