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TIL 40% of HPV related cancers occur in men.

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QD8E TIL: There is a cat that is such a prolific hunter, bears actually run away upon seeing it
x66Zk TIL that Jason Alexander was roommates with Holly Hunter when he first moved to New York.
grZ79 TIL musician Frank Zappa's father worked at the Aberdeen Proving Ground where chemical weapons were tested. The family had to store gas masks in the house. This led to Zappa's work frequently referencing biological warfare, disease, and the defense industry.
N7rWN TIL that the interstellar travels of Voyager I and II were only possible due to a specific planetary alignment that only occurs every 175 years. The position of the 4 outer planets enabled a slingshot move which greatly increased the crafts speed.
QJwn9 TIL an enormous Buddhist relic known as the Buddha's Begging Bowl, weighing 350 to 400 kg, is kept in the Kabul museum. When the Taliban captured Kabul, they destroyed all other Buddhist relics except the bowl, since at some point Quranic verses were inscribed on it.