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TIL when Steve Jobs was dying and in need of a liver transplant from someone with the same, rare blood type, Tim Cook got his blood tested, found out he was a match and offered part of his liver. Steve refused.

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6oGJ TIL Schools that offer students more choice—more elective courses, more ways to complete requirements, a bigger range of potential friends, more freedom to select seats in a classroom—are more likely to be rank-ordered, cliquish, and segregated by race, age, gender and social status.
Z0ao TIL to open the vaults at the Bank of England you need a key which is 3 feet long
Rw47 TIL giant penguins taller than the average man lived in Antarctica 37 million years ago
9YYnr TIL of Vulcan Point in the Philippines: an island within a lake within an island within a lake within an island.
oXOr TIL on September 1, 1755 during a religious holiday, one of the most powerful earthquakes in history destroyed nearly every church in Lisbon leaving the red light district virtually undamaged.