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TIL Scientists in China have successfully grown tooth enamel which paves the way to replace fillings & crowns. A chemical mixture applied to whole human teeth created an enamel layer 2.7 micrometers thick within 48 hours. (Calcium & phosphate ions with triethylamine in alcohol).

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Kg0R TIL that there is a myth in South Africa that raping a baby will cure AIDS
R7e7a TIL of Nepal’s 288% automobile tax rate. If you were to buy a car that costs 10k in the US, it would cost around 30k in Nepal.
r56W TIL The former Iranian president has returned to his original profession, teaching and now takes the bus to work every day
nWGBd TIL the leader of the Crips, Stanley “Tookie” Williams wrote a children’s book in prison about anti gang violence. He was nominated for 4 Nobel Prizes for what he did to stop gang violence and was nominated for the Nobel prize For Literature once for this book.
kypB TIL due to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in 1948, the Nobel Committee refused to give the Nobel Peace Prize that year because there was “no suitable living candidate.” The Prize cannot be given to deceased candidates. That way Gandhi’s place on the list was silently but respectfully left open.