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TIL that in 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.

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rPo0 TIL parking in San Francisco is so scarce that the parking spot attached to your property can add up to 100K to the property’s value.
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs
VMoVp TIL Patrick Stewart largely changed the way people pronounce the word "data"
m1dVp TIL that horizontal collaboration—French women sleeping with German occupiers—was a major contributor to young men joining the French Resistance
NXG1P TIL, Easter rarely occurs on April 24th and 25th, with gaps between of 90 years or more between occurrences. Latest possible Easter Day is 25 April, as in the years 1886, 1943 and 2038. You can born on Easter Sunday, but never have another birthday on Easter in 90 plus years.