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TIL - An American woman lost all her teeth due to fluoride poisoning from tea. She'd been having a pitcher of ice tea made with 100-150 bags every day for 17 years.

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8aExL TIL: A study found that Charlie Sheen’s HIV-positive disclosure in 2014 led to 8225 more sales than expected of in-home HIV tests, surpassing World AIDS Day by a factor of about 7, concluding that a “Charlie Sheen effect” represents an important opportunity for a public health response.
BgoDb TIL the name "soccer" actually originates from Britain. Students at Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer”. In Britain it never became more than a nickname though.
VBmPZ TIL that in 2017, a 16 year old girl died of complications from "Rapunzel Syndrome", which is a compulsion to eat your own hair
bGV9 TIL that Gene Wilder chose not to see ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, because he didn’t want to be disappointed by it. He later called the film an 'insult’.
N7kkJ Til of afro turks, people of Zanj (Bantu) descent in Turkey, the current pop is now mixed with the rest of the population.