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TIL that Cannabidiol, a chemical extract from cannabis, is the first nontoxic substance found to fight aggressive metatastic breast cancer cells.

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lpm1 TIL that the “Cadillac-driving welfare queen” made famous by Reagan’s speeches was a real person – and her crime and deception extended far beyond welfare fraud.
9gaQ TIL “Kuru” was a real disease cannibals could catch if they at the brains of other human beings. It would form holes in their brains and cause them to laugh uncontrollably.
Em9X TIL that the man who discovered the precursor to Viagra presented his findings at a national urology meeting with a chemically induced boner, which he revealed when he removed his pants during the presentation.
71Zb [TIL] The Jewel wasp performs a form of brain surgery on a cockroach to effectively zombify the cockroach so its young can feed off of the living cockroach
b6JO4 TIL When Jane Elizabeth Manning James, an early black Mormon (LDS Church) member, died in 1908, then Church President Joseph Smith spoke at her funeral, where he declared that she would receive all her temple blessings in the eternities and become a "white and beautiful person."