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TIL George Washington Never Had Wooden Teeth
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TIL, merchants in the US used to let Einstein take what he needed and his secretary would write them a check later. However, many merchants didn't cash them because the signature on the check was worth more than the amount.
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TIL that a town in Nevada repels a semi-annual cricket invasion by blasting Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones. They were inspired by a story from the 1930s where a woman drove off crickets by using a Chinese gong, then tried rock music with her neighbours
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TIL that Rick Baker's practical effects for Wes Craven's werewolf film Cursed (2005) were scrapped and replaced with CGI.
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TIL the U.S. never did a full test of the nuclear bomb before dropping it on Hiroshima.
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TIL Early microscopes made of wood and cardboard, often adorned with polished fish skin, became increasingly popular in the mid-17th century and was used by the English natural philosopher Robert Hooke to provide regular demonstrations for the new Royal Society