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TIL Steve Job’s Cancer was very treatable, But he wanted to fight it naturally and it killed him…

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YpJXB TIL of the "Babushkas of Chernobyl", Ukraine - women who survived the Holodomor famine and have returned to live in Chernobyl's radioactive Exclusion Zone.
awkAL TIL to help prostitute's business in 16th c. Venice, the authorities designated a bridge where they could stand and show their breasts to potential clients. The bridge still stands to this day and is called "Ponte delle Tette" or the bridge of tits.
grrnL TIL in the 1700s oysters were so overly abundant and popular in New York City that the discarded shells were repurposed into mortar paste to aid NY’s building boom. Trinity Church is an example of a building built with oyster-shells.
AND1w TIL James Cameron was refused permission by the Picasso Estate to use Les Demoiselles d’Avignon but he used it anyways. Its depiction in Titanic suggested the painting sank to the bottom of the ocean did not please the Picasso estate
bvGj TIL Skyhook from The Dark Knight is a real thing developed for the CIA in the 1950’s and used until the mid 1990’s.