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

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VBVNm TIL that Congressman Vito Marcantonio, known for his socialist beliefs, was so popular in his Harlem district that he ran and won in both the Democratic and Republican primaries simultaneously
yQ06X TIL that the Confederate Flag was popularized in opposition of the Civil Rights movements of the 1950s by the political part Dixiecrats
QNMZL TIL that President Richard Nixon often traveled to Camp David, Maryland to catch broadcasts of Redskins' home games that were "blacked out" on TV in Washington DC. He also once reserved a phone line at his Florida White House to receive the play-by-play of a Cowboys-Redskins game in Dallas.
oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
GYBNN TIL that writer Isaac Asimov and Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry died with six months of each other. Asimov helped saved Star Trek from cancellation by writing a fan letter to TV Guide saying it was a "fresh and intellectually challenging science fiction television show". His daughter was a fan.