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TIL - A Man Died After His Parasitic Worm Got Cancer

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Wko5Y TIL John Richard Deacon, bass guitarist of Queen, was the only member never to sing on their records. In Bohemian rhapsody's musical video, he was just pretending to
Na6M TIL that after a serial rapist in India was attacked by 200 women, only 5 of those women got arrested. Those 5 women then got released when every woman from their village stood up and took responsibility for the attack.
MDgm TIL neuroscientist James Fallon discovered he was a psychopath while studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior.
xvE5 TIL in WWII Japan used underwater manned suicide torpedos called Kaiten to destroy American ships. If they were successful, they blew up. If they missed, they sank to the bottom of the ocean.
wLxgW TIL the rise of disposable cups came in the early 20th century to stop the outbreak of communicable disease spread by the practice of sharing water dippers and communal cups in public places. Because the cups are meant for a single person to use and discard, people started to call them 'solo' cups.