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TIL that Discovery Channel’s reality show “Amish Mafia” is an elaborate hoax

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LR0r TIL Steve Jobs’s pancreatic cancer was curable, and that his decision to use homeopathy while resisting surgery brought him to an early grave. According to the chief of Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center’s integrative medicine department, he “…essentially committed suicide.”
eLyg TIL Genghis Khan killed so many people that he caused a “global cooling”
rRNx4 TIL that whilst Filming the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was shunned by the Scarecrow, Tinman and Cowardly Lion due to jealousy. Her only friend on the set was Margaret Hamilton who played the Wicked Witch of the West
XE8gR TIL in 2016, a 17-year-old girl in Denmark successfully stopped an assault by using pepper spray. The man was never caught, but she was charged for the illegal possession of pepper spray.
dDLOr TIL In the 1980s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired the major food companies Kraft, General Foods and Nabisco, allowing tobacco firms to dominate America’s food supply and reap billions in sales from popular brands such as Oreo cookies, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and Lunchables