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TIL that shark teeth are coated with fluoride, which acts like toothpaste and keeps the shark’s mouth healthy and clean.

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BrZ1y TIL George Lucas's Star Wars pioneered the idea of omitting opening credits, a move that cost him $250,000 in fines.
E1W5o TIL Winston Churchill gave his painting of the-Tower-of-Koutoubia-Mosque as a gift to President Roosevelt. It is now owned by the actor Bradd Pitt who purchased it for a world-record sum.
LkRBr TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"
kOXn1 TIL about Jacques Bergier, a jewish white russian with an eidetic memory, emigrant in France, became a genius in many disciplines and science-fiction editor, resistant and prisoner at Mauthausen camp during WW2, his last words were "I am not a legend".
GYgP4 TIL that when teens are taught that people have the potential to change their socially relevant traits over time, they tend to cope better with social stress, and end up earning better grades in school.