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TIL six percent of Americans will never visit a dentist

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j69LX TIL there were vacuum cleaners before electricity was common. They were manually pumped while vacuuming.
PYgxV TIL King Louis IX aka 'Saint Louis' made gambling, loans, & prostitution illegal. He also introduced innocent until proven guilty, banned trials by ordeal, created the military police & bailiffs.
78ebp TIL that when Harold Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of deuterium ("heavy hydrogen"), a component of "heavy water", he declined to attend the award ceremony in Stockholm so as to be present at the birth of his daughter.
j6jEN TIL about the MT Pavit, a 1000-tonne cargo ship that ran aground at Mumbai's Juhu beach 32 days after it sank off the coast of Oman in the Persian Gulf.
KOwZw TIL a man in Argentina bought several toy poodles only to discover that they were actually ferrets on steroids.