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TIL Babe Ruth was one of the first cancer patients to receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment simultaneously

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p8gN4 TIL In the original Jekyll and Hyde novella, a 3rd party (Gabriel Utterson) is the protagonist and the story is told from his point of view.
QNyRp TIL Allen's rule, which describes a pattern in animals' lankiness and size (surface-area to volume ratio) across related species, according to hotter and colder climates
Rxnl TIL the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has detoriated severely since it was built in 1921. A private citizen paid for a replacement flawless marble slab cut from the same quarry used for the original. The government rejected the replacement and it has sat over a decade unused.
neNkY TIL that if you lose 75% of your liver, it'll grow back completely in one year.
awOrZ TIL about the Battle for Castle Itter, where in the closing days of WWII a small group of Americans, French prisoners, a surrendered SS officer, and several Wehrmacht soldiers fortified an Austrian castle and held off a force of marauding SS soldiers.