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TIL a startup called "Novamin" marketed a bioglass for toothpaste that can repair damaged enamel; GlaxoSmithKline bought the company in 2010, pulled it from every US toothpaste brand, and now sells it exclusively overseas as Sensodyne Repair and Protect which in the US instead includes fluoride.

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j6Njv TIL that during build up to the release of The Phantom Menace, Star Wars released a poster mocking the lack of plot in Godzilla (1998)
XoMk TIL Lincoln’s son was dating Lucy Hale while she was engaged to John Wilkes Booth.
9Y9xG TIL Egyptian lawyers were banned from Roman courts during the time Rome ruled over Egypt. This is because they mocked Roman judges and their decisions. Some even made up jokes and songs to defend political prisoners.
7rOKx TIL that if you were able to remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up everyone's bodies, every person on earth would be able to fit into an apple.
kJ5W5 TIL about Landon Jones, a boy from Iowa who, in 2014, suddenly lost the ability to feel hungry or thirsty, refusing to eat and dropping from 104 to 68 pounds within a year. There’s been no update on his progress