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TIL that the use of Mustard Gas during WWI directly lead to the discovery of the first chemotherapy treatments for cancer.

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RVgj TIL that hypocrisy does not mean “not practicing what you preach”; it means falsely claiming to do so
ADL4 TIL Colonel Sanders was once a lawyer, and assaulted his client. He also killed a man in a shootout.
Ar7x TIL that if fraud were a country, it’d have the fifth largest economy in the world.
WxGo TIL Joss Whedon wrote 98.9 percent of the dialogue for the movie Speed, uncredited
Y765A TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, requested an autopsy to discover the cause of his violent behavior. The autopsy revealed a tumor pressing on his amygdala, which might have influenced his actions.