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TIL Steve Jobs could have avoided a premature death from cancer by having it properly treated, he refused it for 9 months, believing an alternative-medicine diet would be better. It was one of Steve Jobs’ most notable regrets.

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QJXXX TIL: Armin T. Wegner who resisted both the Armenian Genocide & the Holocaust. In 1915, he took hundreds of photos of the persecuted Armenians and was subsequently arrested. In 1933, he wrote a letter to Hitler denouncing the persecution of Jews, and was then sent to a concentration camp.
KO8kE TIL It was once extremely common to find Irishmen in high military command positions in the armies of continental European powers. Many Irish generals and officers would often encounter armies led by other Irishmen who they knew and once fought with against Britain
6EAlm TIL an Assistant US Attorney investigating sexual predators & drug rings was found stabbed 36 times, hundreds of miles from his home. Some wounds were on his back, his hands shredded, his scrotum & neck sliced & there was an unidentified fingerprint in his car. His death was ruled suicide.
R5DOQ TIL BNA (Nashville International Airport) has a live music schedule
0wNRA TIL that rats are sometimes eaten in parts of France. In Bordeaux, there is a recipe that calls for the use of alcoholic rats who live in wine cellars. The rats are skinned and eviscerated, brushed with a thick sauce of olive oil and crushed shallots, and grilled over a fire of broken wine barrels.