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TIL you shouldn’t rinse your mouth after brushing your teeth. This washes away all the fluoride, instead, just spit out the toothpaste then go about your day

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8xJL TIL that in lieu of money, Toyota donated efficiency to the Food Bank of NYC. Their experts cut wait times in a Harlem soup kitchen from 90 minutes to 18 minutes. In one Brooklyn warehouse, simply changing the size of boxes allowed workers to cut packing time from 3 minutes to just 11 seconds.
165G7 TIL of the largest floating vessel ever built, the Shell Prelude Floating Liquified Natural Gas platform
WKDA TIL Mexican drug cartels started using pimped out potato cannons to fire cannisters full of drugs over the border
VBGMk TIL Joseph Goebbels seriously considered becoming a Catholic priest. He was aided in his earlier studies by a scholarship from the Albertus Magnus Society; Mangus was a German Dominican friar and Catholic Saint
negWB TIL most maps distort the size of many countries. Greenland and South America tend to look roughly the same size even though South America is 8.2 times larger. Canada is also smaller than the typical representation, and South Africa much larger.