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TIL you can whiten your teeth using banana peels

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oQY TIL that the phrase “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all”. Is now known as “Thumper’s rule” or “Thumper’s law” after the character in Bambi.
womjo TIL that barbers in the medieval times used to perform surgery and tooth extractions in addition to cutting hair, which is why barber’s poles are red, white, and blue.
Gnw4 TIL that Thanksgiving was made a national holiday because one woman obsessively campaigned to make it so until eventually President Lincoln agreed. The same woman also wrote “Mary had a little lamb” and lobbied for the creation of the Bunker Hill memorial.
vPj4D TIL the Coffee Break was first utilized during WWII at a necktie factory in Colorado. Wigwam Weavers gave two coffee breaks a day to its workers so that the caffeine boost would increase productivity.
pDKO TIL there is a clock being made to tick for 10,000 years and play different melodies every time the bells chime.