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TIL that a recently published study out of Spain found that THC seems to target and kill some forms of human brain cancer.

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yDoM TIL human fingers can discriminate between surfaces patterned with ridges as small as 13 nanometers in amplitude & non-patterned surfaces. This means that if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars
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