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TIL Flossing and good oral hygiene can reduce memory loss

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Ovx1 TIL that during the Battle of Moscow, despite German forces closing to within 50 kilometers of the city, the Soviet Union still held the annual military parade marking the revolution. Soviet troops who paraded past the Kremlin, then marched directly to the front line and into battle.
kOxD7 TIL in 2012, a burger king employee anonymously posted an image on 4-chan of him putting his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch the employee worked at and contact the news. He was promptly fired.
9YNl6 TIL that the global Jewish population (2016: 14,410,700) has yet to catch up to its pre-WWII population (1939: 16,728,000).
e07r4 TIL there is a documented war among two groups of chimpanzees, known as the "Gombe Chimpanzee War" or the "4 Year War"
v1nmR TIL In 1974, the North Korean government ordered 1000 Volvo 144 cars as well as other manufacturing equipment from Sweden but never actually payed for any of it. They currently owe about $320000000 in debt to Sweden.