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TIL the origin of ‘Mouth Breather’ and ‘Slack Jawed Yokel’ is a dental condition called Lip Incompetance. People have a very hard time keeping their lips together.

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jOGE TIL That sailors considered black cats good luck and would use them as “ship’s cats” in hopes of a safe voyage. Wives of fishermen would also keep a black cat at home as it was believed that the cat would allow their husbands to return safely.
oRYN8 TIL all forms of paternity tests have been illegal in France unless ordered by court since 1994 because it has the potential of breaking up too many families
xVpOb TIL of Anatoli Bugorski, who was struck on his face by a proton beam while inspecting a particle accelerator. The beam passed through his brain. He survived and went onto finish his PhD. Half his face is paralyzed, giving one hemisphere of his head a strangely young appearance.
grEwb TIL that pro bowling balls have specially shaped "weight blocks" inside them to change how the ball curves
GAZVj TIL in the 1979 movie, “The Muppet Movie”, Jim Henson spent an entire day in a 50-gallon steel drum submerged in a pond for the opening scene of Kermit in the swamp