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TIL NBA player Horace Grant kept wearing goggles, even after getting LASIK, just to make kids with glasses feel better about their eyewear

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vo7B TIL that IBM’s Watson was tested on 1,000 cancer diagnoses made by human experts. In 30% of the cases, Watson found a treatment option the human doctors missed. Some treatments were based on research papers that the doctors had not read. More than 160,000 cancer research papers are published a year.
0w1mA TIL: The bassist of band Les Rallizes Dénudés hijacked a plane and now lives in North Korea
PYk1e Til: A Minecraft realm named "The Uncensored Library" catalogues banned journalism worldwide in order to fight government censorship as the game is unbanned worldwide.
kQpg TIL there was a roman god of penises, and his sacrificial animal was the ass.
OodvY TIL until December 2018, selling comic books that depicted crimes was deemed illegal in Canada