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TIL dental cavities are a transmissible disease. They are caused primarily by one pathogen, Streptococcus mutans.

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neJ5d TIL "Weird Al" Yankovic did not intend his song "Albuquerque" to be well-received as he wrote it as a joke specifically to "annoy people for 12 minutes." It ended up becoming one of his most popular songs.
OGoAL TIL about the Kanem–Bornu Empire, which originated around 700 AD, and lasted as the Bornu Empire until 1900. Remnants of it still exist even today as traditional states within Nigeria.
nroo TIL that the inventor of birth control was not only a devout Catholic, but designed aspects of the pill in a specific way in order to achieve acceptance from the Catholic church, convinced that they would quickly adopt it.
8aG5P TIL at its height, the British East India Company had a private military force twice the size of the actual British Army.
906D TIL Jackie Chan dislocated his pelvis, which was previously thought to be impossible, while filming ‘Police Story’ in 1985.