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TIL that scientists found a drug called Tideglusib that can repair cavities by re-growing teeth

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DQPKY TIL that during Winterfest 2013 Cleveland commemorated the 30th anniversary of "A Christmas Story" with an enormous leg lamp lit onto the side of the Terminal Tower on Public Square, where the movie was partly filmed.
E18Ld TIL of the Rhinoceros Party, a political party in Canada planning to make "Sorry" the new official motto of Canada and who wants to rise up the number of green cars by forcing manufacturers to build more cars in different shades of green.
P1Ake TIL Forecast (relating to Weather) is an invented word in 1850's by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who also captained HMS Beagle during Darwin's voyages. The concept of a weather forecast was met with amusement and some of the earliest users were people betting on horse races
4kljo TIL in 2020, archaeologists discovered a perfectly preserved food restaurant in Pompeii from 2,000-years-ago, complete with painted counters and traces of ancient meals like duck, snails, and goat stew still in their containers.
okDY TIL Jack Nicholson turned down the roles of Travis Bickle, Gordon Gekko, Raymond Babbitt, Michael Corleone and Willard in Apocalypse Now, among many others