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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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nreb TIL Bill Murray went to a college party with some students he met at a bar after a golf tournament and, noticing they had a pile of dirty dishes in their kitchen, washed them because he’s a good dude.
J15ZV TIL that a microscopic inorganic flash of light, also known as a zinc spark, is released by the human egg upon fertilization when billions of zinc ions are exocytosed from its surface.
Y7v07 TIL Cat Stevens wrote The First Cut Is The Deepest
l7N05 TIL George Washington was a third-generation colonist born in America.
04BM TIL popular 80s artist Patrick Nagel who did the cover art for Duran Duran’s Rio, died at age 38 of a heart attack after participating in a 15 minute celebrity “aerobathon” to benefit the American Heart Association.