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TIL that a 17-year old girl diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma refused chemotherapy because she did not want to put the “poison” in her body. After the state took custody of the girl from her mother, a judge mandated she undergo chemotherapy treatment. She is now in remission.

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Oomr4 TIL In his own words, John Lennon's best-selling single "Imagine" was written to represent a 'Communist manifesto' where there was 'no more religion, no more country, no more politics.' In later interviews, Lennon claimed the song represented 'one country, one world, one people.'
kJ9P5 TIL about Sir Robert Hart, the most important and influential Westerner in Qing dynasty China. He was China's Inspector General of Maritime Customs for nearly half a century and also laid the foundations for China's national postal service, railway, meteorological and navigation systems.
LlW0 TIL Cats can get addicted to chasing the red light causing behavior problems. They will just constantly chase around a light or shadow and pounce upon it. They just spend their whole lives wishing and waiting
Q7rL TIL that Medicare fully covers dialysis (~80k/yr) and kidney transplants (~263k) but only covers three years of immunosuppressive drugs (~18k/yr). This creates a cycle in which patients can’t afford their medicine, the kidney fails, and the patient is put on dialysis - in need of another transplant.
b9BME TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.