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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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X0KB8 TIL that, after Charles II returned from exile, Oliver Cromwell’s remains were disinterred from his tomb, subjected to a posthumous execution by hanging, and his head was put on a pole for public display for at least 23 years.
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