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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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P1geG TIL Los Alamos, New Mexico has the highest concentration of millionaires in the U.S. 12.4% of households have assests greater than $1 million
4kDXR TIL in 1987 the MV Doña Paz, a Filipino passenger ferry carrying 4000 people (triple its maximum capacity), collided with an oil tanker while the crew was mostly drinking/ partying/ watching TV. The oil from the tanker set the ferry and the surrounding seawater on fire. Only 24 survived.
XjL6 TIL Louis XI of France once pardoned a man sentenced to death on condition that he serve as a guinea pig for a gallstone operation.
woOpo TIL that "air fryers" are real, and in fact aren't used to fry air - I legit thought that an air fryer is a made up gadget with a nonsensical purpose, created solely for the "You don't own an air fryer" meme. Now I know that it's an actual appliance, used to simulate deep frying with hot air.
YeLZ TIL that nobody really knows how many muscles are in the human body. Numbers range from 656 to 850 to over 50 billion depending on how you count them.