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TIL that two pharmaceutical companies own a patent claiming that cannabis helps kill cancer cells by promoting the re-emergence of apoptosis so that some tumours will heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.

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8eeDa TIL Nobel winner James Watson wrote "The Double Helix" in a fiction like style to attract young people in science. He originally wanted to title his memoir "Honest Jim", and then "Base Pairs", but his co-discoverer Francis Crick had issues with it
GYnWN TIL That pencils never actually contained lead, people just called it that cause they thought graphite was a type of lead.
Jlkv TIL Walt Disney had to fight to get Snow White made . His brother and business partner Roy Disney and his wife Lillian attempted to talk him out of it, and the movie industry referred to it as “Disney’s Folly” while it was in production. He had to mortgage his house to help finance the film
BrA0D TIL that Velociraptors were the size of a turkey in real life, not 2m (6 1⁄2 ft) tall as they were portrayed in Jurassic Park movie.
v6XK TIL Billboards are illegal in Vermont