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TIL that the first human to receive chemotherapy for cancer treatment was baseball legend Babe Ruth.

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dVEQ TIL There was a book written about an ‘unsinkable’, ~800 foot cruiseliner ship, that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night, didn’t have enough lifeboats, and killed most of it’s passengers. Ship was called 'The Titan’. The book was written in 1898… 14 years before the Titanic sank
dD04Z TIL Betty Crocker was never real
je0v TIL that Cole Sprouse has an instagram in which he takes pictures of people taking pictures of him. He calls it camera_duels.
vPamx TIL that the word "boycott" is named after Charles Boycott, a landlord who became ostracized after an organized movement not to do business with him
W7dDo TIL that a Lousiana term for a kind of fish called a crappie is "sacalait", coming from a French term literally meaning "bag of milk". This isn't because crappies have anything to do with milk, but because the Choctaw word "sakli" got turned into "sac-à-lait" in Cajun French.