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TIL of the discovery of chemotherapy. During WWII it was discovered that mustard gas reduced white blood cell counts. In the 1940s, two pharmacologists examined the effects of mustard gas in treating lymphoma in mice. They then treated a patient with nonHodgkin's lymphoma with the chemical agent.

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7rYJL TIL Warren Buffet only bought out Berkshire Hathaway, then a struggling textile company, in order to fire its owner due to a personal grudge. Buffet reckons it was his biggest investment mistake, costing him $200 billion in compounded investment returns for buying the company.
Le60 TIL that Detroit Tiger pitcher Daniel Norris purposely lives off just $800 a month, despite a $2 million signing bonus. When asked why he chooses to continue to live so conservatively. He asked back, “Who am I to deserve that? What have I really done?”
OoOGa TIL one of the first functional digital home computers was the Digi-Comp I from 1963. It was entirely mechanical and used no electricity. It could output 3 binary digits and programmers used thin wires to set up primitive logic. With no power, the user had to pull a lever to perform each CPU cycle.
5Z58 TIL that during the making of “The Silence of the Lambs”, Jodie Foster was so terrified of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter that she avoided him and never actually spoke to him until the last day of filming.
vPZrx TIL about Georgia Tann; the woman who abducted, abused, and molested thousands of children via systematic kidnapping, became incredibly wealthy for selling said children to wealthy Americans, & essentially invented modern day adoption.