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TIL people used to believe toothaches and other dental problems were caused by "tooth worms" that lived in our teeth and consumed them from the inside out.

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YpoDd TIL an underwater icicle, AKA brinicle or "finger of death", kills everything in its path. The water freezes in an icy sheath around it & a web of ice forms that kills everything it touches, including sea urchins and starfish, by encasing it in a tube of ice.
0dRBM TIL June Foray, the main voice actress for Granny from Looney Tunes, was included in the Master list of Nixon's political opponents, commonly known as Nixon's Enemies List from organizing a boycott against his meat freezing prices.
l9la TIL that during the Hungarian Uprising, Radio Bucharest was raided by the Soviets in early October 1956, leaving only one western recording for the station to play: My Boy Lollypop by Barbie Gaye. The station played the song non stop for over a month, making it very much the song of the revolution.
pdA TIL, some time before the last books were written, Daniel Radcliffe asked J.K. Rowling if his character would die at the end of the series. After a long pause, she replied, “You get a death scene.”
OXlg TIL Joseph Jackson tried to teach his kids a lesson about leaving their bedroom windows open, so one night while his son Michael was asleep, Joseph wore a mask, climbed through the window, and shouted at him. Michael Jackson would later have recurring nightmares of being kidnapped from his bedroom.