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TIL Cancers are primarily an environmental disease with 90–95% of cases attributed to environmental factors and 5–10% due to genetics.

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awQEJ TIL In 2018 the WHO classified ageing as a disease
R7ny4 TIL that the legendary Foyles bookshop in London protected themselves from the Blitz during WWII by covering the roof with copies of Mein Kampf.
Z8Oeo TIL while bombing Munich, a B17 got 2 engines knocked out & was denied permission to land in Switzerland. On the flight back to UK the crew jettisoned anything weighty, including their parachutes. They lost another engine but landed in Dover. The plane had 600 Bullet Holes
wLE8J TIL that the mostly-improvised film "Waiting For Guffman" took only 29 days to shoot but over 18 months to edit. The long editing process was due to the fact that over 90 hours of footage was filmed, which needed to be whittled down to 86 minutes.
jN8JR TIL that a catholic altar boy born in Boston dropped out of school, came to Jamaica and then join an Ethiopian Zion Church which he further transformed into an international drug network. The organization was later indicted in Florida for smuggling over 100 tons of marijuana.