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TIL almost all major toothpaste brands contain sodium lauryl sulfate (also sodium dodecyl sulfate), an inexpensive lathering agent that is a known cause of canker sores.

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YRxA TIL if officials awarded Lance Armstrong’s 2005 Tour De France title to the next fastest finisher who has never been linked to doping, they’d have to give it to the 23rd place finisher
GpYJ TIL Both Stalin and Hitler were Nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes
Lpwr TIL: The Darwin Awards poster child, who sued McDonalds over coffee burns, is actually a very sweet old lady who only want the company to be accountable. She did not get millions from the lawsuit as reported, and almost died from the burns she sustained.
xVMXo TIL the McDonald's Happy Meal debuted in the US in 1979 as the "Circus Wagon Happy Meal"
wLGB6 TIL that Lemmings do not commit mass suicide, it is a myth started by a 1958 Disney film "White Wilderness" that includes footage of producers throwing Lemmings off a cliff