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TIL that researchers used Renaissance paintings to get a sense of breast cancer’s historical prevalence.

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5Yd6Q TIL that Japanese vending machines are operated to dispense drinking water free of charge when the water supply gets cut off during a disaster.
95Ym TIL that plastic surgeons use decapitated cadaver heads to learn and refresh their surgical skills. Somewhere out there, there a person who beheads cadavers for a living.
6EvWQ TIL in an interview on the set of Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis predicts that in 5 years some kids would make a movie filmed exclusively on camcorders with poor lighting and a micro budget that would be a huge hit. 5 years after Pulp Fiction came out The Blair Witch Project was released.
D1LGV TIL: The scientific publication 'Super-mesenteric-vein-expia-thrombosis, the clinical sequelae can be quite atrocious' was published about a serious complication of appendicitis
rR7MM TIL that the 1980s pop song 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' was banned from being broadcast on the BBC between 1990 and 1991 because it was feared to have anti-Gulf War themes