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

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Zd9B TIL in 2005 a 2000 year old seed was germinated from the then extinct Judean Date Palm. It was made extinct by Roman armies in the first century AD.
epBl4 TIL that Mushrooms Communicate With Each Other Using A 50-Word Vocabulary
rRrW4 TIL fine sugar particles are extremely flammable. So much that they caught a silo on fire in Georgia, 2008. The fire reached about 4000 degrees Fahrenheit.
VbeZ TIL fedoras were originally a fashionable piece of clothing for women’s rights activists
0wrwv TIL a library in Herculaneum was burned and buried in 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. For 250+ years, scholars have been unrolling/attempting to decipher recovered manuscripts from the only antiquarian library ever recovered. The site was never fully excavated; it is assumed more are still buried.