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TIL you are supposed to use a new section of floss for each tooth (not one string of floss for the entire mouth)

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oBlNr TIL that Terry Fox was a 21 year old one-legged cancer patient who ran 3339 miles across Canada in 143 days before dying to raise money and awareness for cancer research. The Terry Fox Foundation has raised over $715 million as of today to support cancer research.
a8dKZ TIL that Mao Zedong’s great-grandson’s name is Mao Dongdong
5nw8 TIL that a group of Nuns is called a Superfluity, Cobblers a Drunkenship, and (wild) Cats a Destruction. Here is a huge list of Collective Nouns.
4NkJ TIL - An entire village must sink their canoes when not in use, after local orangutans learned how to steal them and paddle them down the river.
VMOOG TIL we are around 1cm taller in the morning than by the end of the day, due to compressien cartilage in our spine and in other parts of our bodies