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TIL There is a Doctor at West Texas A&M University that teaches Heavy Metal as a form of literature

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DQ5WY TIL that John Denver died piloting a home-built aircraft he was not permitted to fly. Despite having over 2,700 hours of flight experience, the FAA had revoked his flight status for medical reasons for failing to maintain sobriety, though alcohol was not involved in the crash.
0l6y TIL most deaths from overdoses occur when a recovering addict relapses, and takes a dose that they’ve by then lost the tolerance for.
R7XW4 TIL New Zealand Council pays a wizard $16,000 a year to "provide acts of wizardry"
e5ab TIL The Apollo space suits were made by the bra company Playtex. After years of failures, they threw together a design in just 6 weeks and beat the aerospace companies. This was because one competitor’s design couldn’t fit through the door, and the other competitor had its suit helmet explode.
LQrXQ TIL Kellogg's cofounder John Kellogg ran a sanitarium in Battle Creek MI where his cereals were part of the patient's diet. Future competitor CW Post was a patient in 1891, settled in the same town and started selling his own knock-offs of Kellogg's cereals and even opened his own sanitarium in 1892