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TIL six percent of Americans will never visit a dentist

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165rO TIL the children's book author, Roald Dahl, also published a book entitled "Switch Bitch" which was a collection of short stories, each of which contains "rape by deception". The book was criticized for containing cruel and misogynistic elements as well as sexual sadism.
vQJR TIL A passenger on a plane was sucked through a window after one of the engines exploded, damaging the aircraft. His remains were discovered 2 years later by a crew building a radio telescope in the desert.
b9e5Q TIL during the Civil War there was a Union version of the song Dixie that started, "Away down South in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators."
eO6E TIL of Stanley Meyer’s water powered car, mysterious death, and final words: “They poisoned me!”
eNln TIL the most number of decimal places of pi memorised is 70,000, by Rajveer Meena. It took him 10 hours to recite it all, blindfolded.