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TIL that George Washington did not have any wooden teeth, and that he had a set of REAL teeth from slaves

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bn09 TIL that there is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that, when fully grown, makes the grasshopper seek water and drown to return the parasite to water.
8e188 TIL The Way of Tuna is a plan by Korean cult leader Sun M. Moon to infiltrate the US sushi industry to fund his church: “After we build the boats, we catch the fish and process them for the market, and then have a distribution network. This is not just on the drawing board; I have already done it.”
grnmy TIL that there is "Antarctic English" spoken by scientists in Antarctica. It has many unique words and pronouncation
d8myj TIL 15 of the largest ships pollute as much as the worlds 760 million cars.
RrP8 TIL that Ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes used nothing more than shadows, geometry, and a dude he hired to pace out the distance between two cities to determine that the earth was curved, and roughly 40 thousand kilometers in circumference, and he was right.