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TIL that brushing one’s teeth wasn’t popular in America until after World War II, when soldiers, ordered to brush teeth, brought home their enforced habit

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1QN7 TIL The Department of Veterans Affairs still issues a monthly pension payment to 84-year-old Irene Triplett, for her father’s service in the Union Army during the US Civil War.
4kEea TIL due to a lack of access, prisoners turn to libraries to keep up with the outside world
Z6jY TIL France removes 900 tons of unexploded ordinance each year from the ‘No-Go Zone’. Farmers call it the 'Iron Harvest’.
GYlnN TIL that General Lee had a pet hen during the Civil War. She would lay an egg every day under his bed, but was eventually killed by the General's cook, which greatly upset him.
D1vKe TIL Jackass Flats: The aptly named test site for the world's first and only nuclear-powered rocket engines.