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TIL Australia sends all adults over 50 a FREE bowel/colon cancer screening test in the mail

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LNK0 TIL -“Genericide” Is the term for calling similar products by the same brand name, such as all tissue paper “kleenex”,or calling a photocopiers a “Xerox”. Most popular: all pain killers “aspirin”.
OGlBL TIL Uday Hussein murdered his father’s valet with an electric carving knife in front of guests at a party
94WX TIL Despite public perceptions, the odds of becoming the victim of a violent crime in the US today are lower than they were in the so-called “Golden Age” of the 1950s.
vPbL4 TIL that Enzo Ferrari chose not to get too close to his drivers, out of fear of emotionally hurting himself, after the death of Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari in 1955. Later in life, he relented his position and grew very close to Gilles Villeneuve, who would also die driving a Ferrari in 1982
R7Zy1 TIL: of the Sedlec Ossuary. Bones of 30,000 Plague Victims Decorate This Gothic church standing in Sedlec near the quaint Czech Republic city of Kutná Hora