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TIL Charcoal toothpaste whitens your teeth by sanding off your outer enamel

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o4d7 TIL Kim Il Sung developed a calcium deposit the size of a baseball on the back of his neck. Because of it, he was only photographed from the front and citizens were jailed for mentioning it to each other.
l7QDr TIL that recent research has found the brain is continuously changing its microstructure , and it does so by eating itself through a process known as phagocytosis. This can occur as a result of insufficient sleep, starvation, or as a consequence of aging or injury.
GbVE TIL That George Miller raised the money to make Mad Max by working as an ER doctor
b619Z TIL that there's an underground coal fire in Australia that's been continuously burning for ~6000 years.
LkVVd TIL 13-year-old Canadian tech prodigy Tanmay Bakshi started using computers at age 5, launched his first app at age 9, and has been working with IBM’s AI and cognitive APIs for a couple of years now.