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TIL That scientists use cancer’s drive to grow uncontrollably to trick it into producing vast amounts of antibodies to fight, among other diseases, cancer itself

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OoDNX TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
OGxNX TIL that the longest continually updated video game is UnReal World, at 32 years. It was released in 1992 and the latest update was in 2024.
wZ5P TIL after WW1 the French had the railway cars that Germany surrender in stored in a museum. During WW2 when France was preparing to surrender, Hitler ordered the walls of museum torn down and the railway cars returned to the exact spot of the 1918 armistice in order to humiliate the French.
ZpXBQ TIL that the Advertising Standards Agency in the UK received a number of complaints about the "Crazy Frog" commercial, due to viewers concerns that Crazy Frog "appeared to have a visible penis and scrotum"
MevD0 TIL that the Chehalis (Sts'Ailes) people of southwest Canada begin their count of months from the arrival of spawning chinook salmon (in Gregorian calendar October), and count 10 lunar months, leaving an uncounted period of around 70 days until the next chinook salmon run