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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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1adGW TIL: Gerard Pique first met his future partner Shakira right before the 2010 FIFA World Cup for the music video "Waka Waka." Pique told her that Spain (his team) would win the World Cup so that he could meet her again when she sang at the final. That year, Spain won their first-ever World Cup.
KYZNE TIL An anonymous donor provided $30 million to run a housing complex for people struggling with mental illness in Vancouver, covering operating costs for 30 years. The heritage building was once a psychiatric facility, senior housing, and is described as a beautiful "oasis in the middle of the city"
e0laE TIL in order to charge more for cinnamon Arab traders claimed that the sticks were used by deadly birds to build their nest. The only way to get it was to trick the bird into trying fill its nest with heavy pieces of meat. The nest would fall and the cinnamon would be taken before the birds attacked
XNOP TIL Take This Lollipop was a 2011 interactive horror short film/Facebook app that requested access to your Facebook account, then used info from that account to fill in details of the film. Its goal was to underscore the dangers inherent in posting too much personal information about oneself online.
Brk4W TIL Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is sung in Japan at the end of every year, and the first time it was sung in the country was in a POW camp in 1918 by German prisoners