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TIL That author Kurt Vonnegut threatened to sue Pall Mall cigarettes for not killing him.

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bLK0 TIL crows are smart as great apes and able to show: imagination, the anticipation of possible future events, to solve problems which require abstract reasoning. Problems which once were only thought possible by humans and great apes.
QJOb9 TIL the "Seinfeld" theme was improvised and it was different for every episode according to the composer himself, Jonathan Wolff
VpN8 TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead
Jl6k TIL The Radium Girls were factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The women were told the paint was harmless, and ingested deadly amounts by licking their paintbrushes; some painted their fingernails and teeth with the glowing paint.
b9By9 TIL songwriter James Blunt was once an army officer. He was in Kosovo in 1999 when the Russians took over Pristina airport. The NATO commander order Blunt's unit to attack and Blunt's commander refused saying we're "not going to start the Third World War."