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eL96 TIL that flossing was dropped from the US government’s dietary guidelines because no reliable study exist to prove its health benefits.
woOxE TIL about Jimi Heselden, who purchased Segway in 2009. 9 months later he fell into a river while riding a Segway and died.
b64nj TIL David Cronenberg's early horror film, The Brood, was his answer to the optimistic divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer released the same year. He also intentionally cast the main couple in the film to resemble Cronenberg and his wife. He considered it his "most cathartically satisfying film."
8agnb TIL Princess Diana and her brothers had such a bad relationship with their stepmother than, two days after their father died, they threw her out of their house.
OoYLg TIL an iceberg with a red streak of paint along its base was found on April 15, 1912, close to where the Titanic sank