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TIL - A Man Died After His Parasitic Worm Got Cancer

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eKBE TIL Stan Lee almost quit making comics. He only continued when Lee’s wife urged him to experiment with stories the way he wanted to, since he was planning on changing careers and had nothing to lose. This led to the golden age of comics.
R7arl TIL British actor Gareth Jones died of a heart attack while performing in a live televised play in 1958 – in which his character was scripted to have a heart attack. The rest of the cast improvised around his death and finished the play.
rNBKy TIL that in the United States there hasn’t been an independent or 3rd party candidate allowed to participate in a presidential debate in 32 years.
rNrD1 TIL A specialty of Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan is pickled Fugu ovaries. The ovaries are normally toxic, but the pickling process by certified practitioners has resulted in no recorded deaths from eating this product. How the pickling process removes the toxin is not yet understood.
n8Eb TIL 400 million years ago, there were giant mushrooms as tall as a tree – 26 feet tall and about 3 feet wide