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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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M77Am TIL that nearly all French wine, including expensive French wine, comes from vines grafted onto American roots.
VBjLp TIL that because nicotine has an affinity for melanin-containing tissues, skin colour has a direct biological impact on one's ability to quit smoking.
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.
GYoX4 TIL U.S Route 666, nicknamed "The Devil's Highway" was renamed to Route 491 in 2003, and within days of the announcement all the old signs containing the number 666 were stolen as souvenirs.
wLYkW TIL that Edward James Jim Corbett tracked and killed 33 well-documented man-eaters, 19 tigers and 14 leopards, that combined to kill over 1,200 people. Despite the dangerous nature of the beasts he was hunting, Corbett traveled alone and by foot while hunting the cats.