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TIL that ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ is a Neil Young disstrack.

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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.
6Jgm TIL: The east coast of the united states has better average internet connection speed than the west coast
xVRL7 TIL basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a writer and has written several books set in the Sherlock Holmes universe
RMkQ TIL that Ann Landers was responsible for the urban legend of people putting razor blades in children’s halloween candy.
XB96 TIL A letter was sent to Martin Luther King, sounding as if coming from a disappointed admirer, urging King to kill himself or risk evidence of adultery being leaked. King believed it was from the FBI. The Senate’s Church Committee on intelligence overreach confirmed King’s suspicion.