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TIL about proton beam therapy, a type of radiotherapy that uses a beam of high energy protons, to treat highly specific types of cancer.

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7r0rr TIL about 'holy anorexia' - Medieval Catholic saints "refused food, but drank the pus from the sores of the sick. Angela of Foligno is reported to have said it was as "sweet as the Eucharist", and also to have eaten the scabs and lice from those same patients"
BaWr TIL a Greek gambler by the name of Archie Karas went on a 3-year winning streak during which he turned $50 into over $40,000,000.
OoY87 TIL Zappos uses an organizational structure called holacracy, which removes traditional corporate hierarchy in favor of overlapping, self-governing "circles" to complete specific tasks.
b60Aa TIL about Toto Koopman, a Dutch-Indonesian model who worked as a spy for the Dutch Resistance in WWII, escaped imprisonment several times, pretended to be a nurse and forged papers to rescue women from the gas chamber and later became an archaeologist as well as found an influential art gallery.
wY67 TIL according to Julius Caesar’s will, if Octavian had died or refused his inheritance, his second listed heir would be Brutus, the man who murdered him.