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TIL Mel Blanc smoked a pack of cigarettes a day from age 9. Unsurprisingly, he died of coronary artery disease.

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VMokQ TIL that the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs extends to their families- daughters Jennifer Gates and Eve Jobs are also equestrian rivals, having competed against each other show jumping.
R988 TIL: Russian Special Forces use a knife that fires a bullet out of the bottom of the hilt. The “safe” way to fire involves holding the blade to absorb recoil.
N7ADN TIL New York City once had two competing police forces - city and state - who rioted in front of City Hall
d1l7 TIL Indian Soldiers were abandoned to die as per the official orders at Dunkirk but Colonel Ashdown of The Royal Indian Army Service Corps disobeyed the order and saved the Indian Soldiers for which he was court martialled.
XEArE TIL of Hussain al-Shahristani. An Iraqi who was forced into solitary confinement in prison for 8 years under Saddam Hussein. He kept his sanity by “making up mathematical problems, which he then tried to solve.” He later became Iraq’s minister of higher education and scientific research.