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TIL a man from Colombia developed non-human cancer from a tape worm living inside him.

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DNYJ TIL Sweden has almost zero child fatalities in car crashes because most parents keep children rear facing until age 4
R5dm6 TIL John Lennon's song "Imagine" was played at Rosalynn Carter's funeral by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood in church. Even though lyrics say “imagine there’s no heaven”, Jimmy Carter was touched by it and said through his work in 125 countries, the song was used almost equally with national anthems
oRBmE TIL in 1996 a woman going through heroin withdrawal crushed up a black widow spider and injected it
KOY6Q “Nitrous oxide — laughing gas — may very quickly improve depression in these patients,” said Nagele. “The gas has very few side effects because it leaves the body very quickly once people stop breathing it. However, it appears from our previous research that the antidepressant effects of nitrous oxide may linger in the brain long after the drug is out of the body.”
mxAPR TIL of bematists of ancient Greek and Egypt, trained professionals who were hired to measure distance by counting their highly accurately spaced steps. The mathematician Eratosthenes worked out the circumference of the Earth using bematists' work.