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TIL About the Personalized Onco Genomics (POG) trials. Started in 2012, doctors have been using patients' DNA to find personalized treatments to fight cancer.

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xV8XB TIL After a composer released a song that was just 60 seconds of silence, he was sued by the estate of a man who had released a similar track, called 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. His defense was, "I have been able to say in one minute what he could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds"
O4A4 TIL of the London Monster who pricked his victims in the buttocks. When people realised that the Monster attacked mainly beautiful women, some women began to claim that they had been attacked to gain attention and sympathy. Some even faked wounds.
dKxj TIL that the clocks in Grand Central Station (NY) run a minute fast to help passengers make their trains.
LQkwr TIL the first player to play in Negro League Baseball who would go on to play for a current MLB team was not Jackie Robinson but Pedro Dibut, a White Hispanic player from Cuba who played for Cuban Stars in 1923 and the Cincinnati Reds in 1924
KOD0w TIL The first settler to successfully grow commercial Tobacco was John Rolfe in Jamestown, in Virginia in 1609. In 1614, the first shipment was sent to England. In 1638, 3,000,000 pounds was being sent annually. By the 1680s, Jamestown was producing over 25,000,000 pounds for export to Europe.