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TIL Steve Jobs’ faith in alternative remedies cost him his life.

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oR1MR TIL that the first African American Governor of a US State, Douglas Wilder, wasn’t elected until 1990.
P7JZ TIL the Tupac “hologram” was actually just the same sixteenth century magic trick Disneyland has used in The Haunted Mansion for over 50 years.
x99B TIL that Tyler Perry’s films have a 29.8% average rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Average rating for Ed Wood, posthumous winner of the Golden Turkey Award for ‘Worst Director of All Time’: 37.3%.
44J5 TIL the fastest matter ever detected was the Oh-My-God particle, detected over Utah in 1991. It was going so fast that it had as much energy as a baseball travelling 60 MPH and is 50 times more energy than produced in the LHC
41YR TIL that baseball managers sometimes yell nonsense at umpires (e.g. “I had bad wine at an Italian restaurant”) in order to invigorate their teams while preventing themselves from being ejected.