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TIL English villagers were captured by pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa

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W7gKA TIL Like many other places in the body, the mouth also has symbiotic bacteria which contribute to oral health. However if there is gum disease leading to the bacteria entering the bloodstream, that can cause heart disease. So Oral Health is linked to Heart Health.
Ooep4 TIL writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ray Bradbury, actors Christopher Reeve and Linda Hamilton, and astronaut Alan Shepard are all descendants of Mary Bradbury, a woman tried and sentenced in the Salem Witch Trials who escaped death and lived to age 85.
VMKxD TIL unclaimed property is the "fifth-largest revenue source" for the state of California
8aglL TIL men in some parts of Colombia have sex with donkeys and it is socially acceptable
GLKg TIL that in the 1960s, Nichelle Nichols, the black actress that played Uhura in Star Trek, wanted to quit the show. MLK himself talked her out of quitting the role because he believed presenting a black woman working alongside white men would help further the goal of racial equality.