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

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mxbeo TIL There is a street sign stylized using letters, with their Scrabble values as a subscript in Jackson Heights, NY where the game was created.
8Jda TIL after the American Civil War, thousands of Confederates fled the US to Brazil. These ‘Confederados’ were recruited by Emperor Dom Pedro II due to their expertise in growing cotton.
kJnX7 TIL because of Flight 1549 "Miracle on the Hudson" As of 2017, 70,000 birds had been intentionally killed in New York City as a result of the ditching.
D1DJv TIL that the national bird of Lebanon is the Pheonix
PbEE TIL the first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face