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TIL that people in Japan used to dye their teeth black

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dDKJr TIL that in 1954 Edward Teller, so called "father of the hydrogen bomb", presented plans for a 10.000 Megaton bomb to the General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Bp4W TIL that Firefox has an experimental add-on called Collusion that allows you to see which sites are using third-party cookies to track your movements across the Web.
nWn8B TIL To get a convincing performance out of the boy that played the kidnapped child in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg&Co. wore gorilla and clown costumes off-camera to surprise him, and slowly opened presents to get his wide-eyed amazed reaction to seeing aliens in his kitchen.
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