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TIL In a lifetime, the average American spends approximately 38.5 total days just brushing their teeth.

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awVyb TIL there is an elephant named Koshik who spent much of his youth at Everland Zoo in South Korea where he learned to speak 5 words of Korean due to the fact he lacked social interactions with his own species and was lonely.
arjb TIL Mao Zedong ordered the people of China to kill sparrows because they steal grain. Since sparrows also eat insects, their absence caused a locust epidemic that ravaged crops and killed millions of people.
Gw9E TIL that Lee Fierro, who played Alex Kintner’s mom in Jaws, went to a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard in 1999. After seeing an “Alex Kintner Burger”, she mentioned that she played the mother in that movie. The manager who went out to meet her was none other than Jeff Voorhees, who played Alex.
rk4M TIL that in 1258 the Mongols destroyed Baghdad. Survivors said that “the waters of the Tigris ran black with ink from the enormous quantities of books flung into the river and red from the blood of the scientists and philosophers killed.” The siege marked the end of the Islamic Golden Age.
KYDN9 TIL Science Fiction author and editor Harlen Ellison on occasion used the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird to alert members of the public to situations in which he felt his creative contribution to a project had been mangled by others