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TIL after an 11 year study, cell phones were shown not to increase chances of getting cancer.

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XEnyQ TIL: Raccoons are not native to Germany. They were brought there in the 1920s for their pelts. During World War II, an Allied bomb hit a raccoon farm wall, allowing a dozen or so to escape. Today, German cities are being overrun by millions of raccoons!
e06M5 TIL that William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy, the first Norman king of England, and ancestor to every English/British monarch since, was born a bastard.
OZNa TIL the Haymarket Affair (1886) was a protest over labor and police brutality. It ended in a bombing, police firing into crowds, and the wrongful sentencing of 7 men to death.
ANow7 TIL Pelvic Exams on Unconsenting Women Are a Regular Part of Medical Training for Students
OW81 TIL of James William Boyd, a Confederate soldier who disappeared. It has been theorized that he was John Wilkes Booth’s decoy after Lincoln was assassinated.