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TIL that Steve Jobs soaked his feet in toilets

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p8LDb TIL despite modern connotations of death as evil, the Greek god Hades was actually more altruistically inclined. Very few individual aspects of his personality were recorded, as Greeks refrained from giving him much thought to avoid attracting his attention.
5YnQk TIL the goat is the Navy mascot partly because sailors used to leave goats on remote islands to propagate and become a source of food for passing ships - a practice which caused long-standing environmental issues due to the introduction of an invasive species.
Lk5NV TIL About one of the few validated cases of a person to have lived in three separate centuries | Margaret Ann Neve (18 May 1792 – 4 April 1903) is also the oldest person born in the 1700's
KOWyG TIL Quigley Down Under and Lightning Jack are directed by the same person, one an American Cowboy in Australia, the other an Australian Cowboy in America.
oBbgE TIL of Al Schmid, a US marine who continued to man his machine gun on Guadalcanal even after being permanently blinded by a Japanese grenade, and later received the Navy Cross for his actions