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TIL Epilepsy kills as many people per year as Breast Cancer

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x6EZg TIL "Hit The Lights," the debut track on Metallica's first album Kill 'Em All, was actually written for James Hetfield's previous band 'Leather Charm' with his friend and guitarist, Hugh Tanner.
XEZEQ TIL about Victoria Woodhull, the traveling psychic that gave American tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt advice on investing in the gold market. Following her advice, Vanderbilt made a profit of $1.3 million, withdrawing just before the gold market crash of Black Friday on September 24, 1869.
M7Xga TIL: Helium is generated by radioactive decay, is a non-renewable resource, physically escapes into space, is used in applications such as MRIs, breathing mixtures and welding gas, and has no substitute.
GLd1 TIL There is an episode of The Cosby Show, where after consuming Cosby’s “special barbecue sauce”, women stop fighting, become passive, and become more affectionate towards their lovers.
VBwbD TIL Studies show that the risk of dying from an injury is far less in the city than in the country