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TIL our galaxy isn’t just a spiral galaxy but a bar galaxy

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a8wPZ TIL Contrary to popular belief, peasants in the middle ages had excellent dental health due to a low-sugar diet consisting of abrasive foods that would prevent cavities from forming.
wjZY TIL Lurch from a The Addams Family was originally supposed to be mute, but “You rang?” was ad-libbed and the producers thought it was so funny that they wrote more lines for the character.
jNjJp TIL holding in farts can lead to bad breath, this is due to excess methane traveling through the bloodstream and leading into the lungs where it's exhaled.
E1WDP TIL Horses don't actually sleep standing up; rather they nap standing up, and sleep laying down.
GYJ04 TIL that Silverchair's hit 1995 album Frogstomp was released when the band members were only 15 years old.