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TIL Sweater Curse is a curse that causes a knitter's SO to break up with them

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nWDwd TIL that “Chemotherapy came to us because of an accident in World War II...it was what the Americans were hiding [illegally as mustard gas was outlawed] in one of the wrecked cargo ship that made the event historic: The U.S. SS John Harvey contained more than 120,000 pounds of mustard gas"
E1xEX TIL that Frankie Muniz of Malcolm in the Middle Doesn't remember his role in the series due to side effects of suffering concussions.
OGNWe TIL about Telegony, the lost sequel to the Odyssey. Circe and Odysseus’s son Telegonus goes to Ithaca to meet his father but instead he , accidentally kills him, he then takes Penelope and Telemachus to Circe’s island where Telemachus marries Circe and Telegonus marries Penelope.
jNa9R TIL France is the World's leading water purificator and has most availability to its citizens.
yQkpa TIL J.K Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers before Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone was accepted by Bloomsbury - and even then only at the insistence of the chairman's eight-year-old daughter.