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TIL there used to be an award for Typography in film

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AD4Yx TIL That the victims of Pompeii had near-perfect dental health due to a low-sugar diet and a local water source rich in fluorine.
PdAL TIL that whilst left-handed and right-handed people have similar IQ scores, people who identify as ambidextrous have significantly lower levels - particularly in arithmetic, memory and reasoning. The exact reason for this is unknown.
w6N1 TIL Häagen Dazs doesn’t mean anything in any language, the creator just wanted the name to sound like something foreign
BLvL TIL the first King to travel around the world was King Kalākaua of Hawaii
rNwd TIL the Earth had a period called “Little Ice Age”, that froze the New York Harbor, allowing people to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island.