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TIL Toothbrushes release thousands of microplastics into your mouth every time you brush

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a8DoM TIL In 1894, Cripple Creek, a gold rush town in Colorado, boasted 150 miners and over 300 prostitutes.
NnQE TIL that the Germans flooded large portions of Holland in 1945 as they were being defeated by the allies. Video in comments.
8eX8G TIL that The Jungle Book is Germany's biggest film of all time in terms of admissions with 27.3 million tickets sold, nearly 10 million more than Titanic's 18.8 million tickets sold
x6aYk TIL Salvador Dali once scammed Yoko Ono into paying him $10,000 for a single blade of dry grass. Yoko had offered to pay him that sum for just one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the piece of grass for the single hair because he believed Yoko Ono was a witch and might use it to cast a spell.
7PMO TIL that Randall Munroe, the artist of xkcd, was responsible for reddit’s comment sorting algorithm.