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TIL About 10% of adults and 15% of kids grind their teeth, which typically occurs at night. Occlusal guards won’t stop teeth grinding but can protect teeth from damage

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LknKm TIL Juno Beach was originally going to named Jelly Beach, but Churchill disapproved of the name, finding it to be undignified "for a beach on which so many men might die".
Oo7wg TIL In 1973, Jackie Chan appeared in a Cameo for "Enter the Dragon", as a guard who attempts to jump Bruce Lee, but Bruce promptly kills him.
N7moP TIL of the song "Ngge Loves a Watermelon", also known as that melody played by ice cream trucks.
VBYlG TIL America own an uninhabited zone called Howland and Baker Island, halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It observes it's own time zone called "Anywhere on Earth". A day has passed everywhere on Earth according to this time. Amelia Earhart was trying to reach here in 1937 before she disappeared.
7rRAZ TIL of a "Bezoar", the accumulation of ingested material such as hair, fur or fiber in the stomach that forms a large stone. Once prized as magical items with protective properties. There was a gold-framed bezoar in the Crown Jewels of Queen Elizabeth I as recently as 1962.