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TIL That Min Chiu Li, the first man to chemotherapeutically cure adult cancer patients, was fired by the NCI for his achievement.

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8aBVZ TIL mythological smith gods, such as Hephaestus, Weyland, Svarog, Ptah, etc., are often depicted as crippled or deformed. This is now believed to be from constant exposure to arsenic, which was added to copper to make bronze.
enDL TIL a Boeing 707 took off from Paris, got lost near the Northpole, had its wing tip blown off by a Soviet fighter jet, landed on a frozen lake afterwards and almost everyone survived.
e0rrg TIL it took Richard Nixon awhile to win over his wife, and in the meantime he would drive her on dates with other guys
R5gwl TIL it's possible to have foie gras without force feeeding geese. A farm harvests wild geese that show up to eat fallen acorns and olives once a year, the high fat content allows the wild geese to developed enlarged livers.
R5LNl TIL the Michelin Man has a name, and it's Bibendum