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TIL the lil bumps at the back of some toothbrushes is actually for the tongue

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85L4 TIL A 19 year old man once nearly died from drinking a quart of Soy Sauce. He holds the record for highest blood sodium level ever measured without brain damage
wopQ8 TIL Charles Manson was also a musician and songwriter, and even had one of his songs covered by The Beach Boys. The song was titled "Cease to Exist" and The Beach Boys performed an altered version titled "Never Learn Not To Love." Manson later released an album of his recorded music from in prison.
1XEr TIL that the “rules of the food game in America are organized in such a way that if you are eating on a budget, the most rational economic strategy is to eat badly — and get fat. Adam Drewnowski found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots.
o9kR TIL that New Mexico State’s first graduating class in 1893 had only one student—and he was shot and killed before graduation.
GAJXJ TIL That the theoretical black dwarf star is expected to be able to live for up to 10 to the power of 32000 years, meaning that when they go supernova may make it the last transient to occur before the heat death of the universe.