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TIL Eating boogers can be good for your teeth.

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N7a8 TIL we know what the Sun sounds like - and it’s terrifying!
49PJ TIL much beloved songs “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” and the opening notes of “Hedwigs Theme” throughout the “Harry Potter” series as well as many others were performed on a little known instrument called the Celesta.
m1GPY TIL researchers studying nominative determinism found that orthopedic surgeons are more likely to have the surname "Limb" than is expected by chance (Limb, Limb, Limb, & Limb, 2015)
mgMR TIL if you put some cut up garlic in between your toes (or in your lady parts to treat an yeast infection), you can taste it after a little while. Garlic and onion can be sucked up by your skin and put in your blood, when the blood takes them to your lungs, you taste them when you breathe out.
7W47 TIL that the Romans decided it was a good idea to put lead in everything, and consequently had severe cases of lead poisoning.