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TIL the UK has the healthiest teeth in the world

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6EamW TIL about 'Bakers Torpedo', an ELECTRIC car that raced to 100mph in 1902 beating the previous land speed record by 25mph
0wlkv TIL the Island of Sri Lanka/Ceylon only became an island in 1480, when the narrow landbridge connecting the peninsula to the Indian Subcontinent was destroyed by a massive cyclone after years of gradual erosion.
yBvl TIL that author J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan) founded a cricket team whose members included, among others, Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), H. G. Wells (War of the Worlds), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), P. G. Wodehouse (Jeeves & Wooster), and A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh).
QJ8wd TIL of Army pilot Phil Rasmussen, who on the morning of pearl harbor, strapped a .45 to his pajamas and took to the skies to engage Japanese zeroes. He barely managed to land his plane, which some accounts say had over 500 bullet holes.
j6oJa TIL about Jilly Juice, a fermented cabbage drink which its creator claims can cure cancer.