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TIL that Americans have worse teeth and fewer teeth than the British, stereotypes aside

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YRR7 TIL that each Oscar Award loser receives a consolation bag of goodies. This year’s “goodie bag” was worth $48,000.
JYg58 TIL Nikki Reed moved out of her mother's house and began living on her own at age 14. After success of her movie "Thirteen", Reed returned to high school but dropped out again after a year because of "mothers who were sneaking into the school at lunchtime to confront and harass her about the film"
womg7 TIL: The number of diamonds 1 carat and larger mined per year would only fill an exercise ball.
dxGB TIL: In WW2, the US government took Aleutian natives from their island homes to internment camps, similar to those they banished Japanese Americans to. About 25% did not survive.
v1Lk8 TIL The ill-fated Russian submarine Kursk had an aquarium and aviary on board for crew member morale