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TIL the origins of Chemotherapy come from mustard gas during WWII when scientists realized that it damaged DNA and decreased the formation of blood cells by the bone marrow. They wondered if similar compounds would have a similar effect on cancer cell proliferation. And so Chemo was born.

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QaKp TIL Viggo Mortensen often spent days hiking to LOTR’s remote locations in costume, in order to appear authentically travel-worn.
yV5Jw TIL chicken tenders were first made in 1974 in Manchester, NH by the Puritan Backroom restaurant
bMKE TIL that 30 years ago, the Philadelphia mayor approved a bombing on MOVE activists, killing nearly a dozen people—without repercussion.
X8Or TIL the word “umbrage,” i.e. “take umbrage” (take offense) is from the Latin “umbra,” or parasol, and used to be a synonym for “shade.” “He took umbrage at the suggestion” literally = someone was throwing shade at him.
xVPa0 TIL a man in Oklahoma was sentenced to a life in prison for standing near less than a fifth of a gram of weed on the floor in his friends apartment.