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TIL that Americans have the highest cancer survival rates in the world.

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OEXa TIL of a 12 year old French boy who staged an elaborate faked a kidnapping of himself just to avoid going to the dentist.
pYBGQ TIL that the rock climbing community has an agreed-upon difficulty scale they use to classify climbing routes. The highest difficulty level, 9C, has only been awarded to one route, named Silence, in central Norway. It was successfully climbed for the first and only time to date in 2018.
wLR8M TIL there is gold in our brains and throughout our nervous systems, and without it, human beings might not exist. The gold in the human body, less than the weight of a single eyelash, is critical for rapid electrical signaling and brain function.
Y704P TIL of the "Gamma Forest" at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. A forest that was exposed to intense radiation in order to study the effects of nuclear war on a living ecosystem
rRj4y TIL: Rhesus macaques were introduced to Silver Springs state park in the 30s but, now 400 strong, they now harbor a disease fatal to humans.