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TIL You are not supposed to rinse with water after brushing your teeth

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W7ErY TIL about Ponte City, a 55 story circular apartment building in Johannesburg, South Africa. Built in 1975, in the 80s gang activity made the area very unsafe and garbage thrown into the open core reached 5 stories high. It has since been restored and is once again a desirable place to live.
wowQ8 TIL Biting insects continue to be used as sutures in parts of Africa and South America. The edges of the wound are brought together, and an ant is allowed to bite through both ‘lips’; when its jaws are firmly locked, the insect’s thorax and abdomen are broken off, leaving the head and jaws.
NXkG6 TIL Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was originally supposed to be about a quest to find Krispy Kreme donuts, but the food was changed to White Castle hamburgers after Krispy Kreme refused to allow the film to use their name.
PYMVe TIL the only way Louis Pasteur was able to study rabies was to keep a supply of infected animals in the laboratory. His assistants routinely pinned down rabid dogs and collected vials of their foamy saliva and were under orders to shoot anyone that was bitten by the animals in the head
x69Mb TIL That France shares its largest border not with a european country but with South America’s Brazil.