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TIL it’s better to not rinse after brushing

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Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
eRd6 TIL the Vatican’s archive is a whooping 40 million pages and digitizing it will take an estimated 9 years and 2.8 petabytes
RxB1 TIL that sea otters have the densest fur of the animal kingdom with about 1,000,000 hairs per square inch.
6EA1W TIL when Mary Queen of Scots was executed, her executioners knelt before her to ask her forgiveness. She granted it saying “I forgive you with all my heart, for now, I hope, you shall make an end of all my troubles.” Unfortunately the headsman missed his first stroke, hitting the back of her head.
Y7BNx TIL that for the last 5 years, a dummy is flying through outer space in a sports car.