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TIL tetanus bacteria releases toxins that block your nerve receptors (mainly in your spinal cord) and cause muscle spasms.

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p8pwp TIL about Dorothy Kilgallen, a journalist who claimed to have inside information about the death of JFK. She was drafting a chapter about JFK's death in her book when in 1965, she was found dead in her apartment under suspicious circumstances. All copies of Kilgallen's drafts were never found.
mRKO TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s personal assistant on the movie Collateral Damage was a 23-year-old college drop-out trying to get into the business named Bill Hader
NmDM TIL of albino alligators, of which only 50 exist worldwide, and have a life expectancy of less than 24 hours in the wild due to UV sensitivity and lack of camouflage.
aw5Rb TIL SAG Union President Ed Asner's award-winning show "Lou Grant" was cancelled by CBS due to his political activism.
b9Zg4 TIL Garlic knots were first created as a way to reuse pizza dough scraps, and were invented at the first pizzeria to ever have toppings on their pizzas.