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9MG TIL that it’s actually healthier to brush your teeth before rather than after breakfast
Onre TIL that James May, from the show Top Gear, got fired from an automobile review magazine for hiding the secret message “So you think it’s really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it’s a real pain in the arse” in his articles.
erbb TIL: There is a machine that transforms concrete rubble into Lego like building blocks. The blocks allow victims of war or natural disasters to construct their own new, earthquake resistant houses.
VBwvD TIL about Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who not only popularised the use of lower case Pi to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter, but was also the first to use "i" to denote the square root of -1. The constant "e", the base number in a natural logarithm is the Euler Number
9prp TIL the world’s oldest person attributed her ripe old age (122) to a diet of olive oil, port wine and 1kg of chocolate per week.