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TIL keeping your teeth and gums healthy helps to prevent heart disease, strokes, and dementia.

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xVn50 TIL that none of the actors portraying the Jamaican bobsled team in the movie ‘Cool Runnings’ were originally from Jamaica! ????????
Oonbg TIL the Netherlands and the british Isles of Scilly were technically at war with each other for 335 years with neither side realizing it. When peace was signed in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing to the Scillonians "to know we could have attacked at any moment."
E1OxX TIL that the whole idea that fish don’t have long-term memories and aren’t very smart in general is plain wrong. In the contrary, fish are actually very intelligent creatures, can remember whole neighborhoods, some use tools like we do and can even do the math.
wmL8 TIL The Foo Fighters promoted AIDS Denialism and Have Not Since Recanted
gMlGW TIL that a group of striking coal workers in West Virginia had leftover WWI chemical bombs dropped on them by the US government during the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in American history.