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TIL you aren't supposed to rise your mouth right away after brushing your teeth

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lAG7 TIL when 20th-century archaeologist Leonard Woolley excavated the temple at Ur, he found rows of neatly arranged artifacts of varying ages accompanied by inscriptions describing them: a 2500-year-old archaeological museum
MmD7 TIL: Nirvana were around less than 1/3 of the time of Foo Fighters but sold almost 3 times as many records
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