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TIL Steve Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of non aggressive pancreatic cancer that was entirely treatable. Jobs then resisted standard treatment for 9 months, choosing to try and treat his cancer with a vegan diet. This led to the cancer becoming untreatable and him losing his life.

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ddPZ TIL when Abraham Lincoln’s brother-in-law Confederate General Benjamin Helm was killed in battle in 1863, Lincoln and his wife went into private mourning at the White House to avoid criticism. The widowed Emilie Todd Helm was granted safe passage to the White House.
P1NML TIL Samuel Chalfant, a dentist who made dentures without patent approval, murdered Josiah Bacon, the royalty collector for Goodyear Vulcanite Company's patent on rubber dentures. After the murder, the company stopped enforcing the patent, and dentists were able to provide dentures without royalties.
WkK7N TIL Cats only have a few hundred taste buds, compared to 9000+ for humans. They are unable to taste anything sweet. They dislike anything bitter like lemons or coffee, interpreting it as something dangerous.
w0AP TIL Ghengis Khan forbade the selling of women, theft of other’s properties, decreed religious freedom, outlawed hunting during breeding seasons, and exempted the poor from taxation.
xx5w TIL that the Gotham General Hospital blown up in the film, The Dark Knight, was an actual abandoned building in Chicago, IL that had housed the administration of what was once the world’s largest candy factory (Brach’s).