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TIL Ray Bradbury originally titled Fahrenheit 451 as “The Fireman”, but he & editors found the name boring so they called a local fire station and asked what temperature book paper burnt at. The firemen put Bradbury on hold, burnt a book, and reported that the temp it burnt at was “Fahrenheit 451”

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4kojR TIL about British World War II general Bernard Montgomery first courted a woman in 1925, when he was in his late thirties. His approach to romance included "drawing diagrams in the sand of how he would use his tanks and infantry in a future war. This young woman refused his marriage proposal.
nePbP TIL that the founder of chiropractic says he received it from "the other world"; that the tenets of chiropractic were passed along to him by a doctor who had died 50 years previously.
W79RA TIL that the first chemotherapy drugs were chemical weapons related to mustard gas. Scientists noticed that mustard gas victims had reduced blood production, and speculated that injecting the chemical intravenously might also reduce cancer cell growth.
V8jm TIL that some sections of “Bohemian Rhapsody” have up to 180 separate tracks, which required the vocal parts to be sung 10-12 hours per day. Record studios of the era only offered 24-track recording, requiring constant overdubs. The same tapes were reused so much, they could be seen through.
neL4P TIL about Chumboxes, a grid of clickbait articles found on a majority of news sites. Over 80% of these articles are ads and are focused on things like miracle cures and images of pills