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TIL that before artificial dentures were invented, teeth were pulled from dead soldiers to make dentures for the rich!

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E1ENp TIL that Clement Wragge, the Australian man that introduced the systematic naming of storms and cyclones, would often name unpleasant southern storms using the names of politicians who thwarted his ambitions or denied funding for his weather bureau
bNXp TIL that Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science
EgnpP TIL that in 2005, Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University found collagen fibers in the fossilized leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
RGm4 TIL that when Napoleon returned to France from Elba, he approached some of the first troops sent to arrest him and opened his coat, “If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am.” They joined him instead.
XNxE TIL a high school principal in Florida hypnotized dozens of anxious students and athletes to help them relax. When two of those students committed suicide and one died in a car accident, the principal was charged with two misdemeanors and lost his teaching license.