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

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n91o TIL that due to a compressed air leak, a worker in a subway tunnel under New York City’s East River was blown out of the tunnel, through the mud at the bottom of the river, up through the water, and 25 feet or so into the air. He received no serious injury.
OGDlg TIL Tetris helps cope with trauma
R7mPw TIL that Patrick Stewart invented photo negative casting so he could play Othello as he wasn't allowed to wear blackface
Z9GG TIL UNICEF tried to provide clean drinking water for people of the Bengal Delta by drilling wells. The ground was contaminated with Arsenic and ended up poisoning over 50 million people.
78R8Z TIL in the original German ending of the fairy tale Snow White, the evil queen is forced to put on red-hot iron shoes and dance until she drops dead.