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TIL the death metal growl has origins in Viking culture

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VRbB TIL that Boston Corbett, the man who found and shot John Wilkes Booth, was completely insane from handling mercury as a hatter; this led to him castrating himself with a pair of scissors.
xVwxD TIL Michigan is one of the safest states from natural disasters as shown by data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
xVb9o TIL Star Wars was originally called "The Adventures of Luke Skywalker As Taken From The Journal Of The Whills Saga # I: The Star Wars".
5Y1nQ TIL The treadmill originated in prisons and were used to pump water or crush grain
4RA6 TIL that on one occasion, J.S. Bach was in Dresden at the same time as a French organist named Louis Marchand. There was to be a competition between the two men to see who was better at improvisation. Marchand heard Bach practicing the day before the competition and left town.