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TIL: Sam Warner Co-founder of Warner bros died of several tooth abscesses, After four surgeries to remove the infection, Warner slipped into a coma. He died of pneumonia caused by sinusitis, osteomyelitis and epidural and subdural abscess spread to his brain from his untreated cavities.

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GAV07 TIL that, according to a study, we spend a total of 3.5 months of our lives hitting the snooze button and 57% of Americans are snoozer, and even more in UK, with 70% of Brits are snoozer
Q6GM TIL, FBI agent John Patrick O'Neill warned of the looming threat of Al Qaeda and was convinced a major attack was in the works. Due to conflict of interests he was reassigned as head of security for the WTC and died on 9/11 less than a month on the job
OoO1L TIL in the popular two-player strategy board game, Chess, if a pawn reaches the other end of the board it can turn into either a queen/knight/bishop or rook.
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8gZV TIL that one of the primary goals of alchemy - transmuting a base metal into a noble metal - was achieved as early as 1924 when gold was produced by neutron bombardment of mercury.