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TIL that estrogen is a known cancer causing agent, even if grown naturally within the body.

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5YDkp TIL in 2014, a 15 years old named Jamal Rutledge got arrested for unknown crime. While in handcuffs, the officer who arrested him collapsed from chest pain. Jamal immediately kicked security fence to alert others. Rescuers arrived and were able to transport the officer to hospital in time
W7vRX TIL cars at the turn of the 20th century were more aerodynamic in reverse. They were also called horseless carriages
XE7nP TIL Canada's Parliamentary press conferences are run by the journalists themselves, not by political office holders like in the US.
XEZor TIL that the abandoned town of Old Jefferson in Tennessee was evacuated and burned down in 1963, to make way for an artificial lake. But the water drained away into underground caves and the site of the town never flooded
1jkX TIL of Hofstadter’s Law which states “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”