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TIL Frank Hayes was a jockey who, in 1923, suffered a fatal heart attack in the middle of a race in New York. His horse finished first with his lifeless body still atop, making him the first and thus far, only jockey to win a race after death.

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N7vNE TIL that Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in World War II
neGWY TIL that The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa Indonesia On 27th August 1883 with an explosion the equivalent power of 150 million tonnes of TNT. The eruption was so loud that the sound was heard over a twelfth of the Earth’s surface, the shockwaves reverberated around the entire planet, seven times.
6E9EQ TIL the FDA approved the first gene therapy drug for use in the US - the drug modifies patient T-cells to hunt down and destroy cancer cells and has produced very high response and remission rates in clinical trials.
YVZ7 TIL: When men and women work a 4-39hr a week job, women out-earn men (table 5, page 27).
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