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TIL that most people don't brush the roofs of their mouths when they brush their teeth. ???

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ep7a4 TIL that one of the oldest national anthems, the Spanish National Anthem Marcha Real, has no official lyrics at all. It's just the music. And while it is played people just hum "na na na" to the music.
yQAGJ TIL that Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Garrett from Facts of Life) divorced her husband when he came out of the closet after 25-yrs of marriage.
ObM4 TIL in the movie Galaxy Quest (1999), the scene where Tim Allen’s character overhears the convention goers calling him and the show’s cast “nobodies” and claiming the cast “couldn’t stand him” actually happened to William Shatner when he attended a Star Trek convention.
dlb8 TIL that the Richter Scale doesn’t stop at 10.0 and that asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was equivalent in energy release to a 13.0 earthquake
wLPpP TIL that from atop Telescope Peak in Death Valley, CA, one can see both the highest point (Mt Whitney) and the lowest point (Badwater Basin) in the Continental US.