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TIL Kelvin Bryant won the USFL's inaugural MVP award, beating out Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker

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OoRYa TIL that 85-90% of cancers are due to people's environment and lifestyles
OoQ16 TIL in 2017 doctors in Japan discovered a tiny brain and skull inside of a 16-year-old girl's ovarian tumor while removing the growth.
9YBDM TIL about the Great Stink, where after years of untreated human waste and industrial runoff in the River Thames, the smell became unbearable in London during the summer of 1858. The stench finally caused local and national authorities to address the problem—and also ended outbreaks of cholera.
wLALJ TIL that reindeer regularly seek out psychedelic mushrooms. Tribes would also get high off the red-and-white 'shrooms, and some postulate that that is where the Santa myth came from.
ln7G TIL that the space extending from your nose to the center of your lips is called the Philtrum. It serves no function in humans but allows other mammals to carry moisture from the mouth to the nose pad to keep it wet which traps odor particles better than a dry nose pad.