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TIL that a dentist named Edgar Parker legally changed his first name to "Painless", when he was accused of breaking a false advertisement law by claiming that his dentistry was truly painless.

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X0Djj TIL playing tetris shortly after a traumatic event may reduce the severity of any related PTSD
w091 TIL : The skull Russians kept as evidence of Hitler’s death is actually the skull of a woman.
R0Qa TIL With 150,000 post offices, India has the largest postal network in the world. However, it is not unusual for a letter to take two weeks to travel just 30 miles.
GRGJ TIL the first chairman of the 9/11 Commission was Henry Kissinger. One of the family members of the victims of 9/11 asked Kissinger if he “had any clients by the name of bin Laden.” Kissinger resigned soon after that.
gky9 TIL there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.