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TIL: Tonsil Stones Can Form When Food, Bacteria, and Other Debris Get Stuck in Your Tonsils. (And They Look Like Teeth!)

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V5Vm TIL a black man won the 1st US Open Tennis title in 1968 and no black man has won it since.
neowG TIL: Pringles are not truly a potato chip but a "potato crisp" as they are made from a dough and fried. The can was developed by a engineer who wrote Fantasy Fiction and used a super computer to assure the shape and size of the can for minimum breakage on movement.
yQN4v TIL the cast of the 1910 version of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' remains unknown because the credits to the film are lost and the identity of the director and actors are disputed.
Yplor TIL about the "Upside Down Boat Village" in France. Equihen-Plage, a former fishing village on the English Channel with a dry harbor, became a stranded port at the start of the 20th century. Poor families living in the village recovered the boat hulls to build makeshift shelters for themselves.
vPBDR TIL that the song “Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."