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TIL a woman named Penny Ann Early played in a game in the ABA, the NBA's rival league that they eventually merged with in 1976.

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rRr1M TIL that Sheila Chandra who sings Braith of Life (a.k.a The Grace of Valar) from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers suffered from the burning mouth syndrome (BMS) starting 2010 and has been since been rendered effectively mute.
Yp9YB TIL that William Howard Taft, after falling out with his mentor Theodore Roosevelt, in 1912 became the only Republican and the only sitting POTUS to end up third in the election results
rRdpo TIL that immediately after the end of slavery was declared in America, there was a surge in Wanted Ads placed in newspapers across the country. African-Americans used them to search for family members sold or escaped, sometimes decades earlier.
yQJxe TIL: Many dentists acknowledge that for adults with good oral hygiene practices, seeing the dentist twice a year is probably more often than is really necessary. Once every 12-16 months is perfectly sufficient for many people.
Ooboe TIL that When written down, the word ‘almost’ is ALMOST the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order. It comes second to the proper noun Aegilops (which many do not consider as the winner because it is a proper noun).