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TIL Alice's Restaurant Massacree is mostly a true story

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m1meE TIL before 1950 almost 1 in 3 homes in the United States had bedbug infestations.
979p TIL James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.
yall TIL the tin man from The Wizard of oz was once a normal man. Until the Wicked Witch of the East enchanted his ax to cut off his body parts, which he replaced with tin parts. All except his heart
rN1rW TIL glutamate accumulation in the prefrontal cortex during demanding tasks was linked to cognitive fatigue.
WkoYB TIL that Euler's work in mathematics and physics touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.