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

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vPMd8 TIL that Mike White, the creator, writer and director of the TV show The White Lotus, also played Ned Schneebly in the film School of Rock.
v1KPK TIL London's "Continuum Magazine," which for years promoted the idea that HIV was a social construct created to stigmatize gays, shut down after all its editors died of AIDS.
xVWbD TIL in the 1970s "Wimpy Bars" (one of the era’s largest fast food restaurant chains in the UK) used to refuse entry to women on their own after midnight. This may have been on the assumption that they were prostitutes.
YpawB TIL of a man, Michael Fagan, who at least once in 1982 broke into Buckingham Palace by climbing a drain pipe. He entered the Queen's bedroom and asked for cigarettes, which a maid bought him, before finally being arrested.
OoZOg TIL that during WWI, there was limited supplies of cotton, so doctors used sphagnum moss for bandages. It can hold 22x its own weight in liquid and is a natural antiseptic.