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TIL in 2016 the U.S. health department stopped recommending flossing because it has "no proven benefits"

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QNx8M TIL that the rescue and relief efforts for the Oklahoma City Bombing had to be evacuated after police found a supposedly live 3-foot long TOW missile believed to be a second bomb. It was discovered to be inert but marked live for a planned law enforcement sting
NZv1 TIL that in the 1980’s, Darrell Hammond was set-up by police in the Bahamas by being given a cocaine-laced dollar bill and arrested for possession.
4XKl6 TIL that Benjamin Lay, an early Quaker abolitionist, walked into the 1738 annual meeting of Quakers and during an abolition speech plunged a sword into a bible he had hollowed out and filled with a bladder full of red fruit juice. To horrified onlookers, the Bible appeared to be bleeding.
9wwG TIL during the Munich Massacre, the camera crews filmed the actions and broadcasted it live on TV, so the terrorists were able to watch the police prepare an attack.
4kobX TIL the wildlife painter John James Audubon ate all of the birds he painted, including bald eagles, snowy owls, sparrows, robins, and whooping cranes