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

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XdO8 TIL The ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne was so afraid that the surgeon John Hunter wanted his body dissection and display, he arranged to be buried at sea. Hunter snatched Byrne’s cadaver on the way to the burial, reduced Byrne’s body to its skeleton and put it in his museum where it still remains
jn6j TIL Luxembourg is the second wealthiest country in the world (based on per capita GDP).
OooYg TIL that when the film Blackfish (2013) premiered, it created such a huge backlash that the writers of Finding Dory scrapped the entire film and rewrote it to be about animals in captivity.
EgdbV TIL Catherine Dior, youngest sister of Christian Dior, was in the French resistance in WW2. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was tortured and sent to both Ravensbruck and Buchenwald concentration camps, surviving both. Diors first perfume, Miss Dior, was named after her.
bXEQ TIL the word “biweekly” can mean either “twice a week” or “twice a month” and has the potential to cause an epidemic of misunderstandings all across the english speaking world.