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TIL Malaria did not kill half of all humans who have ever lived

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xV7D5 TIL Eugene Merle Shoemaker is the only person with remains placed on a celestial body outside Earth. On July 18, 1997 Shoemaker died in a car crash while on an expedition for crater sites in Australia. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe.
9Y4Vm TIL that a group of Belgian authorities have trained giant rats to sniff out land mines planted in Africa
AD9w7 TIL "Old People Smell" is caused by a molecule called 2-nonenal, which is secreted by ageing skin
e0WrL TIL Lymphocytes kill targets including tumor cells by inducing them to undergo programmed cell death aka apoptosis.
kJkNm TIL today marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide, when 1 million people were killed in 100 days