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TIL Ashton Kutcher tried steve jobs diet when getting into character for the JOBS movie and ended up in the Hospital because it messed up is pancreas levels… Steve jobs died of Pancreatic Cancer

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m1xJO TIL Mariam Soulakiotis, a Greek serial killer known as the Women Rasputin. She was a nun and allegedly killed 177 people at her monastery. She would torture wealthy women, making them donate all their money, before killing them. She also allegedly caused the deaths of 150 children by mistreating TB.
9lm TIL Alec Baldwin donates everything he earns from Capital One to charity
mxNBM TIL King Louis IX, who died today in 1270, is the only French monarch venerated as a saint. He invited beggars to eat with him at his table daily, and replaced trial by combat with evidence-based trials.
JYQ1 TIL that the vibrator was the fifth domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster, and about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron
R7Gmw TIL That levels are sometimes referred to as "spirit levels" because the fluid inside was commonly colored spirit or alcohol for contrast. Today the fluid is usually a dyed ethanol because it doesn't freeze as easily and provides less friction for bubble movement when compared to water.