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TIL that researchers have developed a new blood test that can predict if someone will develop Alzheimer's disease up to 16 years before symptoms appear

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M5pV TIL A tradition of High Wycombe, UK, involves its Mayor being weighed annually in public on a specially erected scale, and their weight compared with the previous year. If it has increased, it means they have been indulging in too much good living at taxpayers’ expense, and the crowd jeers and boos
YBBA TIL Drukpa Kunley was a Buddhist Monk who promised women a path to Nirvana through the use of his penis, or “Flaming Thunderbolt” as he liked to call it. The women paid him in beer.
Ovpe TIL as head of Iraq’s Olympic Committee, Saddam Hussein’s son Uday dragged athletes who underperformed through a gravel pit, then immersed them in sewage to induce infection.
JYe0k TIL that in the U.S. television stations east of the Mississippi River all have call signs starting with a "W" and ones to the west have call signs beginning with a "K". Dallas, Texas has both because of a weird rule when they moved the demarcation.
neGGG TIL Bill Gates has given Khan Academy more than 10 million dollars, so he essentially subsidized millions of students' college degrees.