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TIL that using mouth wash can damage the microbiome to the point that it can have a slight but noticeable negative impact on your blood pressure when eating foods containing nitrates and nitrites.

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R5oyQ TIL about the British submarine E31 which in WW1 fired the final shots that brought down German Zeppelin LZ 32
VBJ4G TIL Benjamin Franklin ran the first placebo-controlled blind experiment. In 1782 King Louis XIV hired a group of scientists to investigate Franz Anton Mesmer's medical practices. Mesmer's cures were tried against nothing/fake treatments and ultimately the fakes worked as well as the 'real' cures.
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DdZY TIL In 1912 three men set out to recover emperor penguin eggs from Antarctica. It was so cold one man’s teeth chattered so violently that they shattered. When he returned to the UK the National History Museum refused to accept the eggs.