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TIL when tickets went for sale for the first Comic Con in 1964, the first ticket was purchased by 15-year-old George R. R. Martin.

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rRAMd TIL that American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but instead of texting him he tweeted it to his followers by accident
JkZv TIL a clinical trial in 2016 held at Stanford University School of Medicine found that injecting modified human stem cells directly into the brains of chronic stroke patients can re-enable patients to walk.
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