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TIL about the Leesburg Stockade Girls

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rRJV4 TIL Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) is often added to toothpaste to act as a foaming agent. A Norwegian study in 1994 revealed that this almost tripled the rates of mouth ulcers to those susceptible.
vvxj TIL the mother of a 9-week-old child that went missing in 1980 insisted that a dingo took her baby. Six years after being convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the child’s jacket was found in a dingo lair. In 2012, it was officially ruled that a dingo had taken and killed the child.
MegO8 TIL that Shaquille O'Neal holds Walmart's record for the largest, single purchase sale at just over $70k.
oRAK7 TIL the misunderstood lyrics you sing are known as a Mondegreen.
NXj91 TIL Thomas Jefferson wanted the official motto of the US to be "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." When it was rejected he appropriated it for his own seal.