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TIL That the Reading Company, immortalized as a space on the Monopoly Board Game, sold off all of it's railroad assets in the 1970s and now operates movie theaters.

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d8OYK TIL researchers found that a blood test called PanSeer detected cancer in 95% of patients up to 4 years before they got a conventional cancer diagnosis. The test determines if the DNA in blood plasma was shed by tumours based on precence of particular methyl groups.
gx1b TIL that a giant, nine-foot crocodile likely ruled the Earth before the dinosaurs.
r9Jo TIL Benjamin Franklin published a paper where he discovered that America’s population growth was so fast, it would surpass Britain in 100 years. This alarmed British leadership and was a factor in their oppression of the colonies.
ne0ZP TIL that brain-eating amoeba was found in New Orleans' water supply system in July 2015
KOZbG TIL The Earth loses hundreds of tons of oxygen to space. This happens at places near the poles, called polar cusps where the solar wind can collide with Earth’s atmosphere. Luckily the process will take billions of years to strip away the atmosphere completely.