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TIL due to lack of sugar in their diet the average person in the Middle Ages had teeth that were in very good condition

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b9NXj TIL In 2010, Nickelback approached Dark Horse Brewery about having their beer featured in a video, which would have meant great exposure for the small Michigan brewery. They declined, however, as “none of us at the brewery really care for the band.”
wLgV6 TIL that according to a 2014 Pew Poll, 23% of Americans who identify as libertarians have no idea what the word means
jabR TIL, 5 days before he was found dead Fresno activist John Lang said the Fresno PD was going to murder him that weekend. His death was ruled a suicide from self inflicted wounds
4Yjw TIL “The Book of Abraham”, a book supposedly translated by Joseph Smith for The Book of Mormon, was debunked by Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists as ancient funerary texts
5Y96R TIL: That 'Aryan' and 'Iran' and 'Iranian' all come from the same word, and some of the 'purest' of Aryans are Kashmiri, Romani Gypsies and Punjabi.