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TIL cancer can be passed down through genes like colon cancer

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1aDZP TIL that during the Battle of Boulogne on 23 May 1940, a shell from the British ship HMS Venomous made a German tank turn "over and over, like a child doing a cart-wheel".
5ZY8 TIL in 1952, Wernher von Braun wrote a book called “Project Mars” which imagined that human colonists on Mars would be led by a person called “Elon”
E1bgx TIL In 1998, a British newspaper reported that Arthur C. Clarke paid Sri Lankan boys for sex, leading to the cancellation of plans for Prince Charles to knight him on a visit to the country. The accusation was subsequently found to be baseless.
awALZ TIL that cotton reusable bags as well as most other reusable bags create a far greater carbon footprint than plastic bags
wYYE TIL every year, more police officers commit suicide than are killed by the guns of felons