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TIL along with Denmark and Luxembourg, British teeth are the healthiest in the world

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MenmV TIL PEZ candies were originally peppermint flavored, shaped round and called 'PEZ drops.' The name PEZ comes from the German word for peppermint, “PfeffErminZ” taking the P from the first letter, E from the middle and Z from the last letter to form the word PEZ.
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b6oZZ TIL C. J. Lewis tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II in 1981 and two years later he tried to escape from psych ward to kill Prince Charles