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TIL six percent of Americans will never visit a dentist

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BrEaL TIL that when smokers try to quit smoking they develop flu-like symptoms including headache, fatigue, irritability, sore throat, insomnia, and coughing. This is sometimes known as quitter’s flu or smoker’s flu.
xNQ7 TIL An Australian man - Don Ritchie lived across the street from the most famous suicide spot in Australia known as “the gap.” He lived there for 45 years and during that time he saved at least 160 people from committing suicide.
NrEb TIL that the crown princess of the Netherlands goes to a public school.
WkRa8 TIL that, in 1967, due an argument with their bishop everyone in a small Italian village renounced Catholicism and converted en masse to Greek Orthodox.
b9ENE TIL there's an award called the 'Bad Sex in Fiction' award. The aim of the award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".