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TIL Some Green Victorian Books Were Colored with Arsenic and are Considered Poisonous

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Jb0l TIL: That, contrary to the popular American belief that British people have bad teeth, British people’s teeth are infact much better on average with the average number of missing or decayed teeth at age 12 being just under half that of America’s.
NGJ6 TIL that on April 15, 1912, a steward who hadn’t yet heard about the Titanic sinking spotted an iceberg smeared with red paint and snapped a photo
xwr0 TIL billionaire Sean Parker was considered a genius at a young age. In high school he was recruited by the CIA after winning a computer science fair and was making $80,000/year by the time he was a senior
yOye TIL Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl” and is about about an interracial relationship.
wEvP TIL that in 1956 soviet scientists proposed building a 55 mile dam spanning the Bering Strait with the intention of transforming the climate of North Asia, America, and northeastern Europe.