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TIL that we have taste receptors in our hearts

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VMBKQ TIL that Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson never got into drugs and showed his kids what people that got messed up by drugs looked like to let them judge for themselves.
avJ0 TIL Artist Damien Hirst set an art auction record by selling one of his works for $19 million in 2007. The entire work is just a glass case with some random pharmaceutical pills in it.
LQeX0 TIL obese drivers are 80 percent more likely to die in a car accident than drivers who are not overweight
9YyPX TIL the word "cancer" is derived from the Latin term for crab because translations of Hippocrates observed that in surface-level tumors, "the veins are stretched on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet". Greek tradition forbade opening the body, so the description was limited to skin.
e09jg TIL Star Trek Voyager's captain, Kate Mulgrew was tricked into narrating a documentary supportive of a geocentric viewpoint.