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TIL in the UK there's a museum all about America. Charting its history.

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P1Q9n TIL Over the past decade there has been at least a four- to five-fold increase in the number of oral cancers in the US as a result of HVP infections. The odds of HPV-positive throat cancer increased five-fold in those patients with six or more oral sexual partners.
vPDLR TIL about Archaeoindris, a lemur that could reach the size of a gorilla and who was still around when the first humans arrived to Madagascar
v1gdx TIL that many people carved various things on the walls of Hagia Sophia throughout the centuries. These runes were carved by a Viking general who is presumed to have gotten bored during the mass and carved "Halvdan was here" on a marble slab.
nenRY TIL India's army reportedly spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones" violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus.
NDA8 TIL Irishman William Brooke O'Shaughnessy’s medical research led to the development of intravenous therapy and introduced the therapeutic use of Cannabis sativa to Western medicine In 1841.