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TIL Metallica wrote the song “The God That Failed” because of Hetfield’s mother died due to Christian-science beliefs influencing her to reject cancer treatment

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JYP1V TIL the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail vehemently supported Hitler and discouraged allowing Jews fleeing Europe into the UK.
WkOZB TIL in the 1950s a scientist used a mirror to focus the enery from a nuclear explosion to light his cigarette
Dxvr TIL: the internet has its own internal weather and you can observe it
jNAyp TIL in Fahrenheit 451 the gov't didn't burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn't want to be offended
PJaO TIL in 2010 an insurance company denied coverage for surgery to repair a newborn’s heart defect in which the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart are reversed, as it was a “pre-existing condition.”