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TIL Men who are receiving chemo should avoid causing pregnancy during and for some time after treatment because chemo may damage the DNA in sperm cells. This could lead to birth defects.

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QNMEd TIL about the "friendship paradox" which states that most people have fewer friends than their friends
a88YL TIL Chevy Chase is the name of a town in Maryland, and the comedian Chevy Chase's real first name is Cornelius.
aZo9 TIL that comedian Tommy Cooper had a heart attack during one of his TV shows, and the audience laughed as he died on stage because they thought it was part of his act
6AG8 TIL that at the end of the Vietnam War, the USS Midway crew pushed $10mil of helicopters into the sea so that a Cessna full of evacuees could land on the deck.
yQyMw TIL about "A True Story", the first sci-fi novel written by a Greek-speaking Syrian in the 2nd century AD. This satire is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare.