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YwRr TIL Processed meat has been classified as a ‘definite’ cause of cancer (or Group 1 carcinogen) – the same group that includes smoking and alcohol because the “IARC isn’t in the business of telling us how potent something is in causing cancer – only whether it does so or not”.
w5KP TIL a harpoon fragment patented in 1879 was found in a bowhead whale in 2007, indicating the whale was between 115 and 130 years old.
YplQB TIL life on earth is estimated to exist for around 4 billion years ago. This means life, as far as we know it, has been a component of our universe for roughly 29% of its timeline.
gXn9 TIL that when a bull moose is castrated, it immediately sheds its old pair of antlers and grows a new, permanent, misshapen pair called “devil’s antlers”.
loa11 TIl about the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox. An endangered species of bat found in the Philippines that has a wing span of 5.58 feet and grow as big as a human child.