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TIL that HBO ordered a 2014 drama series about a “dynastic New York media family and its mogul patriarch” from the creator of Deadwood. It was not picked up.

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QXJX TIL A man has bitten by so many snakes, that his blood is able to be used as an antivenom.
kVVm TIL that the Jonas Salk, who developed the world’s first successful Polio vaccine, refused to patent his discovery. The vaccine was valued to be worth $7 billion had it been patented.
M4x0 TIL the average house in the US is almost 3 times bigger than the average house in the UK
b9L9N TIL that stomach growling is called 'Borborygmi'
Z8aAQ TIL of US Army nurse Ruby Bradley. Captured during WWII, she was nicknamed the "Angel in Fatigues", delivering 13 babies and smuggling food to help starving children. During the Korean War, she refused to leave her hospital until everyone has left, despite surrounded by 100,000 enemy soldiers.