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TIL Watching too many short videos can cause us to easily lose focus and always in rush to find the point right away

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EgoNw TIL Mao Zedong, the leader of the CCP, never brushed his teeth, he instead preferred to rinse his mouth out with tea and chew leaves 'like peasants did'. His teeth turned green and infected gums would gush out pus. When encouraged to do so, he responded by asking 'does a tiger brush his teeth?'.
6YV7 TIL the two rival TV helicopter pilots, both men, who duked it out for OJ Simpson police chase footage have since both had sex change operations and become female friends
LlVV TIL Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone. It was originally invented by Antonio Meucci, however he could not afford the $10 to renew his ‘impending patent’. Alexander filed a patent for the idea and Antonio died before legal action could be taken.
ayYM TIL the “Love you Forever” children’s book is actually about the author’s “dead babies.”
loX9a TIL that the first reference to butter in our written history was found on a 4,500-year-old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was made. Also, the ancient Irish, Scots, Norsemen, and Finns loved and valued butter so much they were buried with barrels of it.