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TIL that snails Have 14000 teeth and some can even Kill you!

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9wxdM TIL that the illustrated wizard on the back cover of first edition of Harry Potter was not any character in the book but a drawing of the illustrator's father. The artist did not know the book would end up being a hit and just drew any random picture instead.
kJdx7 TIL Federico da Montefeltro lost one of his eyes in a tournament so he had the bridge of his nose removed to increase the field of vision of his remaining eye.
4Jw TIL Helena Bonham Carter pays her psychotherapist-mother to read her scripts and deliver her analysis of the psychological motivation of the character Helena is to play.
ZpAn4 TIL there's a restaurant in New York that doesn't employ chefs; they employ grandmas. Every day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu.
jNblp TIL that when Shell Oil started secretly manufacturing several hundred thousand gallons of JP-7 fuel for the U-2 spy plane in 1955, it depleted stocks of a petroleum byproduct usually included in the making of FLIT insecticide, causing a nationwide shortage of the product.