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TIL there are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than lung cancer cases due to smoking

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b9Yp4 TIL that Dr. Anthony Atala out of Boston Children's Hospital successfully 3D bio-printed a bladder for a cancer patient and it is continually to function after over a decade.
wnZP TIL that “Fuck your ancestor to the eighteenth generation” is a Chinese insult, due to the high respect for one’s ancestors
VVnp TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1994. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. Apple lost and renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt Head Astronomer. Sagan sued again, and lost.
ME6B TIL that Bhutan, a nation that is 75% Buddhist, has a holistic govt goal of “Gross National Happiness” which includes equitable and sustainable socioeconomic development; preservation and promotion of cultural values; conservation of the natural environment; and establishment of good governance.
yQ79a TIL about Homo Syntheticus, the idea that we will soon take control of evolution away from nature and replace it with cybernetics & genetic engineering.