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TIL that human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot repair themselves.

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epww6 TIL the wolfman from Monster Squad played Uncle flippin' Rico in Napoleon Dynamite.
Aj8l TIL more people are executed for witchcraft in modern times than in previous centuries. In Tanzania alone 20,000 ‘witches’ have been brought to death in the past 20 years.
R5lB9 TIL about the Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty, which is the oldest recorded peace treaty in history (c.1259 BCE). In this treaty, both parties agreed to end their war, form an alliance in the event of foreign or domestic aggression, and to the extradition of rebels, fugitives, and political refugees.
XxvQ TIL that 70 scientists who worked in the Manhattan project signed a petition pleading for president Truman to delay using atomic weapons on Japan before considering an observed demonstration of its power, but it never made it to Truman before the bombings
6EXZY TIL that the forbidden fruit in the Bible was not an apple. It only became known as an apple when the bible was translated into Latin in the 4th century, because the word "Malus" means both apple and evil.