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TIL the original lyrics to Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ were about crib death

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W77KA TIL between the time he murdered his wife and son and the time he killed himself, pro wrestler Chris Benoit attempted to reschedule his flight from Atlanta to Texas so he could perform at that weekend's WWE pay-per-view, where he was scheduled to face CM Punk for the ECW Championship.
BrPkk TIL turning the subtitles on for kids' TV massively improves their reading
LP40 TIL, the earliest reference to “cooties” was a nickname for lice in the trenches of WWI where they were also known as “arithmetic bugs” because “they added to our troubles, subtracted from our pleasures, divided our attention, and multiplied like hell.”
v1l0B TIL there's a concerto written for a typewriter soloist with an orchestra
e0NAn TIL Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.