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TIL that Steve Jobs had a relatively treatable type of cancer, however, he pursued pseudo-medicine for 9 months, leading to his death

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8wRb TIL that the Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
ADVOl TIL rice provides about 20% of all human calories worldwide.
NLLb TIL On April 18, 1930, the BBC announced, “There is no news today,” and played piano music instead.
QwXE TIL that India’s Mars mission cost less than the movie “Gravity.”
OG0da TIL In the United States cows can be given growth hormones but chickens can not.