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TIL of ‘The Terminal Man’ who lived in a Paris airport for 18 years.

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PY1Le TIL In the last 40 years, the overall survival rate for children’s cancer has increased from 10% to nearly 90% today.
jPYv TIL Bacon affects the brain the same way as cocaine and heroin, overloading pleasure centers in the brain and requiring increasing amounts to be satisfied.
v1MYR TIL The equivalents of the idiom “It’s all Greek to me” in world languages use other kinds of languages other than Greek.
Z8lrv TIL of the great Sikh warrior Banda Singh Bahadur who fought against the Mughals and avenged Guru Gobind Singh who suffered at the hands of the traitorous and tyrannical Mughals. He was eventually captured along with his 700 soldiers and executed along with his four year old son in his lap.
6ryW TIL that the only ship left in the US Navy that has sunk an enemy ship is 218 years old