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TIL Cavities can be contagious

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bKEQ TIL in 1973, New York Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson held a press conference to announce they had “traded lives.” This included the exchange of wives, children, and dogs.
0daYj TIL a father (5 years) & son (4 years) were sentenced to prison after they cashed in 14,000 winning lottery tickets over a 10-year period, laundered more than $20m, & then failed to pay the IRS $6m. They bought the tickets at a discount from people who wanted to avoid being identified by the state.
j6PJM TIL Brian Patrick Carroll, the guitarist known professionally as "Buckethead", has recorded over 300 studio albums, four special releases, one EP, and has performed on more than fifty albums by other artists.
kJ16E TIL after the WWII, there was a third government that existed in Korea but it was disbanded and outlawed by both the Soviet Union and the US, with its leader assassinated by a far-right South Korean
8oaK TIL that 30,000 American draft dodgers went to Canada during the Vietnam War, while 30,000 Canadians joined the US military to fight in the Vietnam War