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TIL Victor Salva, the director of Powder and the Jeepers Creeps trilogy is a convicted child molester that abused the star of Clownhouse

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x6bdk TIL that evidence for the effectiveness of dental floss is limited. Several academic reviews have concluded either that flossing is no more effective than tooth brushing alone, or that the evidence in favor of flossing is weak, biased or of low certainty.
KYvn9 TIL in 1914 a boy threw a tennis ball that got stuck high up in an archway of the Lincoln Cathedral. Over 90 years later, the boy's nephew wrote a letter to the cathedral asking if he could have it back, though secretly hoping the cathedral would notice it and leave it in place.
9Y7rG TIL A study from Harvard University found that having no friends can be as deadly as smoking.
KYA9a TIL that in 1963 the Australian Army conducted "Operation Blowdown", in which 50 tons of TNT was detonated to simulate the effects of a nuclear weapon on a tropical rainforest.
j0gn TIL Samuel Johnson, creator of the first English Dictionary, wrote joke entries including: “Oats: A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland appears to support the people.”