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TIL Cuba has created four anti-cancer vaccines that have gone completely unreported.

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5YNpR TIL that the designer of the Pringles can is buried in a Pringles can, his ashes ofcourse.
5Yw4Q TIL that because Subarus use unconventional construction and high strength steel in the B pillars, first responders had to develop new techniques for extracting crash victims.
8Jmb TIL that before he died in a car wreck, Walter Gehring discovered a segment of DNA, called the homeobox, that has the exact same parts in organisms as diverse as fungi and humans, further indicating that all species evolve from a common ancestor.
GYGD7 TIL a circle is used to represent a city on a map since early maps would draw small bird's-eye views of cities, and walled cities during that time were usually circular. Eventually the drawing was dropped and only the circular outline remained.
y61V TIL Leonardo da Vinci recommended gazing at stains on a wall or similar random marks as a stimulus to creative fantasy.