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TIL of the origin of the phrase "drunker than Cooter Brown." Legend says that Cooter lived on the dividing line between north and south in the American Civil War. He didn't want to fight, so he stayed drunk all the time to make himself ineligible for military service.

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neRKY TIL the surname "Esposito" and its variants comes from children who were abandoned ("exposed") in Italy (before the XVII century, when the law forbade it). Every person with that surname today descends from an exposed child that kept the surname the orphanage once gave them.
1aVKD TIL that fluoride taken in from drinking water becomes a component of saliva, which helps oral health by helping to rebuild weakened tooth enamel.
ejmD TIL the Prime Minister of Hungary during WW2 killed himself rather than be complicit when his country was forced into the Axis
XVjr TIL cutting off a portion of an ear is the universal sign of a neutered feral cat.
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