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TIL that the proper response to the phrase “Top of the morning to you” is “And the rest of the day to yourself!”

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a8Yyy TIL the Amish have lower cancer rate than the rest of the population
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v1wMx TIL that CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and stepped in to perform emergency surgery on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians while reporting on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and on a 12 year old Haitian girl while reporting in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
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xyr1 TIL that some believe humans are the only animals with the ability to ask questions. Chimps that learned sign language can answer, but never ask questions. Responsorial singing (one person calls, group responds) might be the way humans started asking and answering questions.