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TIL that poultry farming is associated with 9 times higher pancreatic cancer risk

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mpVO TIL Judd Apatow wrote the screenplay for “Heavy Weights,” aka the fat camp movie with Ben Stiller.
6Eg0Y TIL almost all the stones/rocks used in the sport Curling is from the small uninhabited Scottish island, Ailsa Craig. The only other source of the stones is a quarry in Wales.
KdwQ TIL that in 1830, a black man named Ira Aldridge portrayed the title character in Othello and stunned critics not because his acting was excellent, but because a black man could remember “the most difficult passages” correctly
b9XYQ TIL that after Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 - 1945) the US hasn't had a President who speaks fluently a second language.
YlZ TIL that Bruce Dickinson, the singer in Iron Maiden, used to fly Boeing 757s, has written 2 novels, has been a TV actor and presenter, owns/can drive a tank, and is an olympic-level fencer.