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TIL Why You Should Stop Rinsing Your Mouth After Brushing

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Meoem TIL the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy collects about $4000 worth of coins every day. Most of the money goes towards charities like a supermarket for the needy.
9YaLG TIL that Haiti and Liechtenstein showed up at 1936 Berlin Olympics only to discover that they both have the exact same flag
QNA1k TIL that contrary to the popular image of short, primitive cavemen, early modern humans in Europe 40,000 years ago averaged 183 cm (6 ft) tall. After the invention of agriculture, height dropped to 162 cm (5'4"). Humanity only recovered prehistoric height levels in the 20th century.
oBa07 TIL of French inventor Charles-Émile Reynaud. He invented the Théâtre Optique, a device for projecting film made several years before the cinematograph (the first widespread projector). Reynaud made the first animated films ever but threw them into a river in a fit of depression. All but one is lost
KYGe4 TIL that in addition to being the youngest EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner, fastest to achieve EGOT, and only EGOT winner twice over, songwriter Robert Lopez (who wrote music for such works as Disney's Frozen) broke the previous record of fastest to achieve EGOT previously held by...himself.