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TIL of oncolytic viruses, viruses that are genetically modified to target and kill cancer cells

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mBxP TIL that the 1918 flu pandemic is often called the Spanish flu because Spain didn’t fake and minimise the data about the dead like Germany, Britain, France and the USA.
OGa5L TIL that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the only film to get more than 10 Oscar nominations (11, to be precise) and won all.
4kaBb TIL that Japanese war criminal Hitoshi Imamura, believing that his sentence of 10 years imprisonment was too light, built a replica prison in his garden where he stayed until his death in 1968
ADXLo TIL In 1983, UK, a man confessed to murder of his wife 2 decades ago after a human skull was found behind his house, only for carbon dating to discover that the skull was actually 1700 years old, while his wife's body were never found. He tried to revoke his confession and failed.
8ev4K TIL The four of the five largest U.S. lake islands are on the Great Lakes. The other of the top five largest is antelope island on the Great Salt Lake. The sixth is largest lake island is the Grande Isle on Lake Champlain.