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TIL the Millennium Falcon was built in Wales

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loKO1 TIL A 2008 review of 11 studies found flossing was no more effective than brushing alone in reducing plaque or gingivitis. A 2011 review found "some evidence" from 12 studies, and "weak, very unreliable evidence from 10 studies" that it did. The US government stopped recommending flossing in 2015.
69mWm TIL Many sub-Saharan languages do not have a word for rhythm, or even music. From the African viewpoint, the rhythms represent the very fabric of life itself.
MekaV TIL that Virgin group owner Richard Branson bought Necker Island in the Virgin Islands at the age of just 28 for $180,000 in 1978, it was supposed to be worth $6 million but he somehow managed to buy it for $180,000. He still lives on the island to this day.
4XLAa TIL that although the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant had a meltdown in 1986 and had rendered the land around it uninhabitable, the remaining reactors of the facility remained in normal operation and generated power until 2000.
v1vaL TIL new knitting patterns were banned in both world wars as a counter-measure to knitted coded messages