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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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wLlYP TIL of Perkeo, a court dwarf in the 1700s, who would drink 5-8 gallons of wine a day. This impressed the Prince of Heidelberg Charles III, who made him cup-bearer and supervisor of the largest wine barrel in the world.
NX0RN TIL of RAS syndrome (RAS stands for "Redundant Acronym Syndrome" Syndrome ), which is the redundant use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym (or other initialisms) in conjunction with the abbreviated form. (EX: PIN number, ATM machine, chai tea)
O6eX TIL that there were more than 42,500 concentration camps in Europe during World War 2
pYo1Q TIL Jack Black's parents were both Rocket Scientists and worked on the Hubble Space Telescope
ggd9 TIL that the FBI spent two years analysing the lyrics to Louie Louie for obscenities. The results were inconclusive.