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TIL - dentists can tell if you have given a blow job recently

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DmAv TIL that from 1936-1966, black Americans going on a road trip often used a “Negro Motorist Green Book” that would list businesses that sold to black people. The book helped travelers avoid one of 10,000 “sundown towns”, places it was the law that all non-whites had to leave the town by sundown.
gKB8 TIL that the Sahara desert is vastly expanding. 12 African nations have banded together pledging to build a 9 mile wide band of trees, that will stretch across Africa (4,750 miles), called “the Green Wall,” to halt its expansion.
MeZG8 TIL that Sweden had a chance at Norways oil resources for 40% of Volvo back in the late 70s, but Volvo shareholders believed it was being sold too cheap and declined. Norway oil fund is now over 1 trillion $ and Volvo was sold in 2010 to a Chinese company for 1.8 billion.
0wBM5 TIL the Russian WWII movie "Come and See" uses almost only live rounds. Bullets sometimes passed just above the heads of actors, making their terrified looks genuine.
PYPdJ TIL James Bond was originally half Scottish half Swiss. Also Flemming named him after an ornithologist as it was the "simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name".