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

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6YOJ TIL scientists have dosed naked mole rats with carcinogens and radiation, yet they have never been observed to develop cancer. They tolerate acid, live 6x longer than other rodents, they hardly age, they survive long periods of oxygen deprivation and can live in heavy metal polluted areas.
l7KMr TIL the "Sugar in the fuel tank to destroy an engine" is largely a myth. Only extremely large amounts of any foreign substamce might clog the filters (reposted for "clarity").
lvNN TIL the film Juno earned back its initial budget of $6.5 million in just twenty days, the first nineteen of which were when the film was in limited release.
XK08 TIL A 12 year old kid lied to his friends about being Jay Leno’s nephew. He wrote Leno who then dropped him off at school at his request.
5mQn TIL Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Coppola) changed his last name at the beginning of his career in order to avoid any favoritism he might receive as the nephew of the legendary director Francis Ford Coppola (directed “The Godfather”, “The Godfather II”, “Apocalypse Now”, among other movies).