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TIL Steve Jobs has no public record of giving to charity

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oVNA TIL Super-size me creator Morgan Spurlock’s ex wife who was shown in the film as a vegan chef, later revealed that she had been sneaking in meat for years
b9gPQ TIL that Cougars have a rich social structure and even share kill with other cougars, who eventually return the favor.
nWlJr TIL there's a spinning, floating island in Argentina
pY1nO TIL Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Academy Award (Gone with the Wind, 1939), was not allowed to attend the film’s premiere in Atlanta, had to sit at a segregated table at the Oscars, and was denied her final request to be buried at Hollywood Cemetery when she died in 1952.
VMep TIL George Koval: Soviet master spy that infiltrated the Manhattan project, stole nearly all of our nuclear secrets, single-handedly provided the key technology for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, and was only discovered as a spy in 2002.