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TIL that The Beatles officially broke up at Walt Disney World

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E1AJx TIL Hepatitis C is the most common cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. From it's discovery in 1989, it took less than 25 years to identify, model and create an oral treatment that can completely cure a person in 8-12 weeks. 1-2% of the world population has HepC. Most don't even know it.
x6eJD TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book.
DpOg TIL the British study that linked vaccines to autism was retracted because this “elaborate fraud” has done long-lasting damage to public health
4OoR TIL when doctors recommended Einstein surgery he refused surgery, saying: “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
vZAx TIL that Hack the System blogger Maneesh Sethi hired women from Craigslist to yell and slap him for procrastinating or getting off task from his work. His work productivity went up and he improved at his job.