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TIL that Louis Armstrong suffered from severe calluses on his lips due to his excessive trumpet-playing. So, he cut them off with a razor blade.

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W71DA TIL that Angelina Jolie is both Jon Voight’s daughter in real life and in the Tomb Raider movies
nWMP TIL that a set of simple algorithms can give rise to amazingly complex patterns that are able to transform, breed, travel, and create. It’s Conway’s Game of Life, and in principle it is the same way organic molecules work together to create the patterns that are life.
9YjpX TIL American country music is one of the most popular music genres in Nigeria
LkOod TIL a possible origin of the name Cerberus (the multi-headed dog of the Greek god Hades) is the Proto-Indo-European word k̑érberos, meaning "spotted". Hades' dog might have literally been named "Spot".
P14Zg TIL that Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan that increased the price of EpiPens by 461 percent, from about $100 for a package of two pens to about $600. Also the daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin.