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TIL Babe Ruth was one of the first cancer patients to receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment simultaneously

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rR5lw TIL that the wife of George Lucas, Marcia Lucas, won an Oscar in 1977 for Best Film Editing in Star Wars. George Lucas has won zero Oscars.
VBXvG TIL in German, the word “umfahren” has two meanings: To drive around something or someone but also the opposite, to run someone over.
n5Kb TIL That 1/3 of Russian soldiers in World War One were not issued rifles, and were told to pick up a weapon when one of their comrades were killed.
6EnaY TIL that in 2004, Iran allowed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to be released in the country because it contained several uses of the word "Bismillah", which means "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" in Arabic.
a8Bno TIL Rick Marin from the New York Times called the record label Sub-Pop and asked Megan Jasper for a lexicon of Grunge slang. She kept giving him progressively more ridiculous terms as a joke thinking he would call her out on it, but instead he believed every word of it and published them.