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TIL cancer can be passed down through genes like colon cancer

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KnNQ TIL that the dating system “BP” (before present/before physics) starts in 1950, because nuclear weapons testing changed the carbon isotopes in the atmosphere, making dating after that time unreliable.
mEQE TIL that, in the U.S.A., corporate personhood was established in 1819, which means that corporations got to be people before black people did.
x61PD TIL that during an NHL game between Toronto and Carolina in 2018, both of Carolina's goalies got injured so they had to put in a 42 year old maintenance worker from the rink in net. They won the game.
EBEw TIL of Ewa Wiśnierska, a German paraglider that survived lightning, pounding hail, -40°C temperatures and oxygen deprivation after a storm system sucked her to an altitude higher than Mount Everest.
woY9Y TIL That in 1913, sickly Japanese Emperor Taisho rolled a prepared speech paper into a tube and stared through it like a telescope instead of reading that speech to parliament.