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TIL Researchers in Sweden developed a blood test that accurately detects cancer 96 percent of the time and classifies the type of cancer correctly 71 percent of the time.

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OokoR TIL New Mexico was NOT named after Mexico and was actually named before Mexico even existed as an independent country.
MMZa TIL the saying “She sells seashells on/by the seashore” comes from Mary Anning, a poor Paleontologist who was forced to sell her fossils to support her family.
wo5VE TIL Teenagers are drinking less, doing fewer drugs and have less sex than previous generations. Teenagers today are also more depressed than previous generations.
8MkZ TIL that Band of Brothers was the most expensive miniseries ever with a production cost of $125 million until it’s sister series The Pacific was released in 2010.
oZLL TIL that the Boo character in the Mario series is based on assistant director Takashi Tezuka’s sometimes ill-tempered wife; “it shrinks when Mario looks at it, but when Mario turns away, it will grow large and menacing”