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TIL calculus is another word for tartar (hardened dental plaque).

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wEEM TIL that Sinbad and Arnold Schwarzenegger improvised a lot of their banter in the movie “Jingle All the Way.”
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nVoP TIL that when Napoleon emancipated the Jews he stated that “I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country”