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TIL Steve Jobs bought multiple houses across the country to increase his chances of receiving organ donation.

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Br5yL TIL that Heroin was sythesized, named, commercialized and marketed by Bayer, the pharmaceutical company.
X0jkE TIL in 1745 Benjamin Franklin wrote a risqué letter, “Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress,” where he advised pursuing older women, arguing they were more grateful, better conversationalists, more experienced in bed, and that their “lower parts” aged better than their faces.
aPBJ TIL When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.
N7xKN TIL that the oldest dog ever verified was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey who lived for 29 years & 5 months
b6RKj TIL: People accused of being witches during the witch trials in colonial New England weren't' burned at stake, they were hanged. One man who was accused of Witchcraft died by pressed to death by heavy stones, another was jailed.