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TIL tapeworms can give humans cancer

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Lk98r TIL the NASA cameras that tracked Apollo rockets were built off of M-45 quadmount anti-aircraft gun systems
bko4 TIL that Cincinnati has a subway system that was abandoned and never finished.
rOme TIL that Richard Dreyfuss’s drug problem was so serious in the 70s/80s that he still has no memory of shooting the film Whose Life Is It Anyway.
VjJk TIL indigenous peoples in Mexico and California use base-8 number systems because they count using the spaces between their fingers rather than the fingers themselves.
8PRa TIL Sugar Ray Robinson dreamed he was going to kill an opponent during a match. As a result, he decided to pull out of the fight. However, a priest and a minister convinced him to go ahead. Jimmy Doyle died later that night due to injuries resulting from the bout.