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TIL that it’s actually healthier to brush your teeth before rather than after breakfast

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D1Jrp TIL the largest sum paid for a painting by Giovanni Boldini (€2.1 million) was for one found in an unoccupied and decadent Paris apartment frozen in time since 1942. The painting of his mistress had sat unseen for 68 years after her family fled the Nazi's to never return (rent paid til their death).
xDm0 TIL that in 2005 a Texas man shot himself in the face after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted of the animal.
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