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TIL that Brits actually have better teeth than Americans.

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6Eg8Z TIL Richard Nixon had the Secret Service uniform redesigned to closely resemble that of European palace guards. The "toy soldier" uniforms were universally ridiculed and only used for a few months before being mothballed; after a decade in storage they were sold to an Iowa high school marching band
GY1Y1 TIL American captives in the Vietnam war would authenticate a new prisoner’s American identity by tapping the first five notes of “Shave and a Haircut”, against a cell wall, and waiting for the appropriate response
Mjmb TIL the story that NASA spent $1 million on a space pen while the soviets simply used a pencil is false. The pen was developed by a private company without any taxpayer dollars and NASA simply became a client afterwards.
4XP1a TIL Brenda E. Robinson was the first African American female pilot in US Navy history in 1980
d8Joj TIL there are more national football teams affiliated with FIFA (211) than there are UN member nations (193).