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TIL Miley Cyrus’ dad is on the PTC’s advisory board. The organization’s mission is to “protect children from graphic and gratuitous programming and to restore responsibility to the entertainment industry.”

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nelZo TIL why coins have ridges on the sides... Criminals in the 1700s saw they could make a good profit by filing shavings from the sides of gold and silver coins. Today’s coins contain no precious metals but, you’ll still find those ridges to make them distinguishable for visually impaired people.
OoY0R TIL Researchers at King's College London found that the drug Tideglusib stimulates the stem cells contained in the pulp of teeth so that they generate new dentine – the mineralised material under the enamel.
7avp TIL a woman was imprisoned for 15 days and deported for allowing her kindergarten class to name a teddy bear Muhammad
D11Op “At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms happening somewhere on Earth. This amounts to 16 million storms each year! We know the cloud conditions that produce lightning, but we cannot forecast the location or time of a lightning strike.”
ANpo4 TIL that the Great Pyramid of Giza held the title for the world's tallest structure for an astonishing 3600 years, spanning from 2600 BC to 1300 AD. It also retained its position as the tallest structure in Egypt until the year 1961.