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TIL The Herpes Virus is being used to treat Cancer. A modified form of Herpes is already FDA approved to treat melanoma.

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VAgD TIL in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ (2003), they made a special effort to make sure that Sauron’s tower being destroyed did not resemble the World Trade Center attack.
NkXQ TIL Chinese tourists in North Korea has been criticized for throwing sweets at North Korean children ‘like they’re feeding ducks’
5Wgk TIL that the Amazon River spews so much fresh water into the Atlantic that surface water can be drinkable up to 200 miles from shore
QvL TIL that there’s a United States flag of peacetime. It’s striped vertically instead of horizontally.
R5wja TIL Trois Pistoles, Quebec, a town of 3000 has been a popular place for anglophones to learn French since 1932. In recent years the number of hosts have declined, as they were only paid $12-15 per day for room and $10 -$15 to feed a student each day