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TIL Steve Jobs though that his vegan diet would mean that he wouldn’t have to shower or wear deodorant.

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M0K8 TIL in the original Peter Pan book, he killed the Lost Boys when they got too old.
8aDpX TIL of the silver mines of Potosi or the ‘Mountain that eats men’. At one point it produced 60% of the worlds silver. The silver funded Spain’s wars and caused an economic crisis in China in the 16th Century
YpRvd TIL that in 1921, Frederick B. Banting figured out how to extract insulin from a dog’s pancreas, creating the first real treatment of diabetes. He intended to make it extremely cheap in order to save as many people as possible but private companies now charge almost $300 a single vial of insulin.
VBYwZ Today I learned that after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot he said "Sophie, Sophie! Don't die! Live for our children!"
JYDeV TIL that Mr. Rogers was a vegetarian, a ordained minister, and a recipient of the presidential medal of freedom.