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TIL that dental fluoride was discovered due to a chemist investigating the weird staining on the teeth of people living in a small town in Colorado.

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XXoE TIL: In 1979 a 16 year old girl sniped kids from her window with a .22 caliber rifle given to her for christimas just to liven up her monday.
lo0WV TIL about the HMS "Black Joke" a brazillion slave ship that was captured by British Admiralty and repurposed to hunt slave ships. Over it's five year career it is believed to have freed hundreds of slaves after its renaming from "Henriquetta"
VB17Q TIL That Italian prisoners of war that were captured by Americans during WW2 were sent to camps in Texas and New Mexico to pick cotton
Wkkd TIL: Continuum, a magazine created to deny the existence of AIDS, shut down when all of it’s editors died of AIDS.
rN4Yd TIL: In 2020, people reported losing $304 million to romance scams. That’s nine times higher than it was five years prior, at $33 million in 2015. (FTC, February 2021)