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TIL Epilepsy kills as many people per year as Breast Cancer
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Today I learned that Heinz invented the word “Ketchup” ~100 years ago; before, it was called “Catsup”
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TIL Philadelphia has a section of railway, home to a heroin epidemic so bad, that even the police have trouble going there due to the horrible conditions.
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TIL in Eastern European folklore, many vampires suffered from OCD, specifically having strong compulsions to count. Bags of rice or seed were often placed at graves to occupy them at night by couting the grains. This is where the inspiration for Count Von Count from Sesame Street came from.
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TIL Levi Strauss has a pair of jeans from 1879 in their archive, the oldest surviving pair in existence
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TIL the cause of discomfort from eating raw kiwis and pineapples, microscopic needles that tear your mouth called Raphides.