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TIL David Lee Roth, former front man for the rock band Van Halen, became a state-licensed emergency medical technician in New York in 1997 and has been on over 200 individual rides as an EMT.

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E1BX TIL We waste half or more of all the food we produce each year.
0ELR TIL that “shrapnel” is named after Henry Shrapnel, inventor of a type of anti-personnel cannonball
5VoMQ TIL ex-British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, helped invent soft scoop ice cream.
LQv8V TIL that three of the four presidents on Mt. Rushmore (Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln) worked as land surveyors before starting their political careers
0wOjM TIL of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plan to collapse the British economy by airdropping fake bank notes over England. The program produced up to 300 million Pounds, including £100,000 notes.