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TIL you should brush your teeth before breakfast or wait 30 minutes after to protect enamel

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R5bp7 TIL that Louis IX of France, also known as Saint Louis, was viewed as “primus inter pares” (first among equals) among the kings and rulers of Europe as he commanded the largest army and ruled the largest and wealthiest kingdom, the centre of European art and intellectual thought at the time.
OGj0e TIL that the Dune di Piscinas in Sardinia are Europe’s largest sandy desert, formed by Sahara sand traveling about 180+ miles across the Mediterranean, then pushed nearly 1-2 miles inland by the Mistral wind, creating the “little Italian Sahara.”
8x6G TIL that in 1999, a Learjet on autopilot continued flying for over 4 hours after all on board had died due to rapid depressurization. It was carrying the professional golfer Payne Stewart.
wLaxM TIL Keanu Reeves was offered the lead role in The Matrix after 5 leading actors in 1990s turned it down.
l7nl7 TIL that there are 31.7 million small businesses in the US and 81% of them have no employees and are considered to be "nonemployers".