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

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a8OeM TIL about Edgardo Greco, an italian mafioso who beat two rival gang members to death and fled to France to escape law enforcement. He went on to become a successful pizzeria owner before getting caught more than 30 years later after posing for a newspaper featuring his prized restaurant.
9YOXB TIL that Jennings Lang, the guy behind the 1970's Airport movies, had an affair with actress Joan Bennett. When her husband found out in 1951 he fired a gun in to his testicles.
oAMR TIL Branden Bremmer, a child prodigy who read books at 18 months, played the piano at age 3 and started college at age 11, commited suicide at age 14 with no signs of depression, no suicide note or pressure form his parents to succeed.
J0xk TIL that when translated into modern English, The word Mortgage literally means “death pledge”. Mort - from the French meaning “Death” and Gage - from Old English meaning “Pledge”
BgV1y TIL Alice was only 43 years old during the first season of the Brady Bunch.