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TIL MI6 replaced bomb making instructions with cupcake recipes on al-Qaeda websites

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EgYL0 TIL that in 2015, a Columbian man's lung tumors were found to be the result of a tapeworm that had burrowed inside him developing cancer and spreading it to the man.