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TIL: Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate to more than 80%.

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wLkEP TIL Gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta's "Good Fellas" character was based on him) was put in the Federal Witness Program. However, after multiple relocations the Feds finally kicked him out because he kept getting drunk and telling his neighbors who he really was.
R50pa TIL George Lucas’s dog, an Alaskan malamute named Indiana, was often taken by the Lucases on car drives and called their ‘furry copilot’. He was an inspiration for Chewbacca and the source of Indiana Jones’ name.
KaMG TIL on April 5, 1943 the Destroyer USS O'Bannon encountered a Japanese submarine. Too close to fire their guns, the crew threw potatoes at the Japanses sailors, who thought they were grenades, distracting them long enough to get distance from the sub, fire their guns, and eventually sink it.
LyK9 TIL that Bob Marley had a small melanoma in his toe but refused the amputation because of his Rastafarian beliefs. The melanoma spread and killed him.
4ZK6 TIL that architecture, painting, poetry, music, literature, all used to be part of the Olympic Games.