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TIL that 3.6% of all current cancer cases worldwide are attributable to drinking alcohol

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b6XnN TIL The Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island, James Douglas, invited the Black community of San Francisco to settle there in 1858 and give them equal rights after they become British subjects
Xn88 TIL that the seed of the Nutmeg fruit is encased in a bright red lace structure called Aril that is used to make the spice Mace.
awykM TIL that in 1965 the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear device near the Chagan river to create an artificial lake with a volume of about 10 million cubic metres under it's Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program. To date the lake is slightly radioactive and is nicknamed "the atomic lake".
MemoW TIL that Sawyer Brown is not the name of a country music singer but is the name of a band
8ewAK TIL that when David Kaczynski wanted to read the Unabomber's anti-technology manifesto to see if it was written by his brother Ted, he had to use the Internet for the first time to access it.