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TIL from my dentist that students practice local anesthetic on each other

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N7Jdb Til that there is an anime adaptation of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'
XRKX TIL that the ‘Lorem Ipsum’ text is typically a scrambled section from Cicero’s work 'De finibus bonorum et malorum’ ('On the ends of good and evil’) from the 1st Century BC. 'Lorem ipsum’ is derived from the Latin 'dolorem ipsum’ - “pain itself”.
OomM7 TIL Chester Cheetah wasn't the original mascot for Cheetos. Instead it was a mouse simply named the Cheetos Mouse, as it was decided a mouse would be the perfect pick since mice love cheese. It wasn't until 1986 when Chester Cheetah came along and Cheetos Mouse faded to obscurity.
gr6M4 TIL Mao Zedong is is generally credited with eradicating both consumption and production of opium in China during the 1950s. Under his government, 10 million addicts were forced into compulsory treatment, dealers were executed, and opium-producing regions were planted with new crops.
a8ggM TIL over 18 million Chinese were killed in World War 2, then over 5 million in the resumed Chinese Civil War, then over 50 million from executions and starvation over the next 20 years after the communists took over.