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TIL that the 'low man on the totem pole' is actually the most important person on a totem pole

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j6p8M TIL Tombstone, the 1993 movie about Wyatt Earp, had an actor in the cast named Wyatt Earp. He played Billy Claiborne
OoGyY The third molars—the last of a group of teeth that grinds food into easy-to-swallow chunks—tend to be overcrowded in adult human mouths, and thus require yanking. But every other toothed mammal has room for their “wisdom teeth,” and so did Neanderthals and other early hominids, says evolutionary biologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of California, Berkeley. So why have those teeth become such a pain for us?
yQQ4M If you burn about 80 calories per mile walked, you’d need two trillion PowerBars to fuel the trip.
MnNA TIL The crown Princess of Japan, Masako, lived abroad in the US, became a polyglot, and studied at Harvard. Along with knowing Japanese and English, she was in her school’s French Club and won an award for her German poetry. To top it off, she was also involved in the production of MAS*H.
KAR6 TIL that, initially, the Roswell UFO incident was almost immediately dismissed and forgotten until The National Enquirer ran a story on it in 1980.