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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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xVQx1 TIL that anything went for a brief period in Hollywood at the start of the sound era, when suggestions of sex, sin and sordidness were all waved through by the censors.
grbL TIL that there is a theory called “The Phantom Time Hypothesis” in which it is stated that the years from 614 to 911 AD didn’t actually exist and where faked by Roman Emperor Otto III so he could reign in the year 1000 AD.
R5mm9 TIL in 2015 Scorsese made $70 million short film to promote casino in Macau. It stars DiCaprio and De Niro, making it the first film all three worked together.
X0YOr TIL that it used to cost 4X as much to send a SMS than it did to send the data from the Hubble Telescope
7ZXL TIL Cats cannot taste anything sweet. Instead, they can taste ATP, the biomolecule that supplies energy within living cells (meat).