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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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6Ep8Q TIL: You cannot hum while holding your nose. There, just made you try!
Lk1AZ TIL the first black white interracial kiss on American TV was on an episode of Star Trek. The producers were worried the show would get banned in the South because of it, so they tried to shoot alternate versions of the shot. The actors flubbed those shots on purpose.
LkAwr TIL: The original 1992 Candyman film used an on set hypnotist to help one of the actors act more realistically scared.
0KOv TIL International Women’s Day was first celebrated in the Soviet Union and used to be called International Working Women’s Day until 1975
kLe5 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.