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TIL "Helicobacter pylori" is responsible for stomach cancer

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j68La TIL after viewing a rough cut of Romancing the Stone & expecting it to flop, the producers of the then-under-development Cocoon fired Robert Zemeckis as their film's director. But RtS was a surprise hit as the 6th-highest-grossing film of 1984 ($115 m) & allowed Zemeckis to make Back to the Future.
wAKM TIL German footballer Mesut Özil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgery of 23 children in Brazil
LQx7V TIL During WW2 the nazis sent a fleet to capture Oslo, as well as The King and the government. Little did they know, the Oslofjord contained a hidden torpedo base.
pgRA TIL Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi had secured free passage on the Titanic’s maiden voyage but decided to take an earlier ship to catch up on work. Three years later he disembarked the Lusitania right before it was sunk by a German U-Boat.
wGNY TIL that in 1984 the Key West Police Department was declared a criminal enterprise.