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TIL: HIV disproportionally affects women.

TIL that 83% of radiologists missed a gorilla that was inserted into images of the lungs during a nodule detection task.

TIL the phrase “abracadabra” originates from the book Liber Medicinalis by Quintus Sammonicus

TIL that it has been scientifically proven that you actually catch more flies with vinegar than you do with honey.

TIL scientists once swapped DNA cells between a human zygote and a mouse zygote to see what would happen. While the mouse zygote was able to reprogram and become a mouse, the human zygote "soon died" in every attempt, with no clear view on what would form.

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