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TIL that medicines are the third largest cause of death in the world after heart and cancer.

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R8w7 TIL that every Apple Macintosh from 1984 to the early 90s had Steve Jobs’s and his team’s signatures engraved on the inside of the case.
OoAne TIL that, unlike Mr. (an abbreviation of "mister"), it is rare for Mrs. to be written in a non-abbreviated form, and the unabbreviated word lacks a standard spelling. Missis, missus, misses, and even mis'ess have been used.
LknmZ TIL the average human gut naturally produces 3 grams of alcohol a day through fermentation. Over the course of a year this is the equivalent alcohol of about 2 full bottles of whiskey.
ARjn TIL that in 2012 a Manchester couple jokingly invited Queen Elizabeth to their wedding, the Queen accepted and made an appearance along with Prince Philip.
nplo TIL Ripley’s Believe It or Not was researched by a man who spent ten hours a day, six days a week in the New York Public Library for 52 years, researching more than 350,000 books during his decades of work for Believe it or Not.