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TIL cigarette smoking decreases women's risk of developing endometrial cancer by 18-29%

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J1vQv TIL the well known animated music video for Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is one segment of a 65 minute animated film set to their album, Discovery.
dlmr TIL a Redditor and former heroin addict named Tracey Helton has saved the lives of over 110 Redditors by mailing out an opiate overdose antidote named naloxone
M7A7B TIL the Byzantine Emperor had an elite personal guard (The Varangians) composed of Norsemen, Rus, and Anglo-Saxons who emigrated to Constantinople.
N71d8 TIL that World War II WASP pilot Katherine Dussaq married the inventor of the polygraph machine and was herself a renowned forensics expert who ran an all-women detective agency. Katherine died in a service-related crash in November of 1944, only weeks away from the disbanding of the WASP.
OJ5a TIL the Navy e-Reader Device, for use aboard US Navy Submarines, is pre-loaded with Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings books