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TIL: Nicotine is more addictive than Heroin.
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TIL According to the American Dental Association, 25.4% of people suffer from a gap between their front two teeth. Diastema, the most common form, can be due to differences in the size of the teeth or the jawbone
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TIL the Venus Flytrap is named after its resemblance to a vagina.
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TIL that modern wolves are not closely related to the wolves that were first domesticated, implying that the direct ancestor of the domestic dog is extinct
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TIL Paper marbling is the Eastern art of floating colours on aqueous solutions and was employed in 1695 by the Bank of England to make banknotes to prevent their counterfeiting. They were forged mere weeks later by infamous counterfeit coiner William Chaloner.
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TIL about Damnatio Memoriae. People’s likenesses were destroyed and his name stricken from the records. The process of damnatio memoraie was intended to be a permanent judgement.