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TIL Dentists May Soon Use Lasers to Regrow Your Teeth

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WJ09 TIL Nintendo refuses to do movies based off of their games because of the critically panned Super Mario Bros. movie.
XE8bk TIL about the Thunderscreech. A plane so loud it sickened the ground crews near it.
7rK4O TIL the grammatical rule against ending a sentence with a proposition was first stated by John Dryden, recommended Shakespeare's works be rewritten to remove style impurities.
QNXM TIL that the recipe for Greek fire, an ancient incendiary weapon that would burn on water, has not been determined to this day.
0wvpy TIL that while Avengers: Endgame is the highest grossing movie of all time, when adjusted for inflation, 1939's Gone With the Wind is still the frontrunner by over a billion dollars.