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TIL that Paul Revere was one of America's first orthodontists, and used walrus teeth as dental implants. The walrus teeth were later helpful for identifying the corpses of his patients that were killed in the Revolutionary war.

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woD07 TIL that Donnie Dunagan, the child actor who voiced Bambi in 1942, later became a U.S. Marine and served for 25 years, earning promotions up to Major. He kept his Disney past a secret, fearing his fellow Marines would call him 'Major Bambi.'
x66gw TIL Quakers invented the price tag. They were invented because Quakers viewed haggling as immoral since different people paid different prices for the same item. This innovation actually made retail more efficient because employees needing less training and were able to serve more customers.
Z8MBG TIL that Gordon Ramsay was covered in gasoline and held at gunpoint in Costa Rica while he was investigating illegal shark fin trading for a TV show
xVWp0 TIL: During the filming of The 3 Stooges second anti-Nazi comedy film "I'll Never Heil Again", Moe Howard has rushed from the set wearing his "Hitleresque" costume to get to his daughter's birthday party. Bystanders have reported that Hitler was running red lights to the LAPD.
4kZbo TIL that many countries used to divide their currency into sub-units that weren’t powers of 10. Most European countries converted to a decimal system in the 1800s, but many former British colonies didn’t do so until the 1960s and 1970s. The UK and Ireland didn’t decimalize until 1971.