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TIL daily mouthwash use is associated with an increased risk of diabetes/prediabetes.

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8eXE4 TIL of the Great Bison Belt. Sprawling grassland from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico dated around 9,000BC, may have housed between 30-40 million bison. First seen by English colonists on the Potomac River.
0bPy TIL: WHen Ford was first creating the Model T’s, a lot of the car was made out of wood. With so much wood scrap, Ford discovered a use for all the waste wood: Charcoal briquettes. Eventually, Ford Charcoal was renamed after a relative of his: Kingsford.
XEkWk TIL Walt Disney bought his parents a house and asked his studio to fix the furnace there. His guys botched the job, causing the furnace to leak, resulting in his mother’s death.
XEKN8 TIL of the top 200 WW2 Fighter 'aces', 195 of them were German. The other 5 were made up of 3 Japanse and 2 Finnish.
Breky TIL that the Hijra (transgender) community in India and Pakistan use a secret language called Hijra Farsi, which originated more than 200 years ago due to government persecution. The language is introduced to newcomers when they enter the community, together with the group’s other traditions