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

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W7M5A TIL Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is the granddaughter of a famous and hugely influential movie producer, the daughter of a famous actress and author and the niece of another movie producer who produced such films as Conan the Barbarian, Dune, and Kull the Conqueror.
xnx5 TIL that in 1996 small town Spanish Fork, Utah accidentally booked a Rage Against the Machine concert and citizens promptly lost their shit. “I’m concerned there might be a riot or something. It kind of scares me, that’s why I’m getting out of here,”
wodE7 TIL about the old Blue Horizon Boxing Ring ( Once voted # 1 boxing venue in the world )
nWWrB TIL bulls are not the only cattle born with horns. most cattle are debudded as calves.
WREY TIL that war pigs were used in ancient warfare, to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.