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TIL the chocolate marshemellow treat (Viva Puffs/Mallomars in North America), were known across much of the world as “N*gger Kisses” or some variation of that until the late 2010s in some countries

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yQWav TIL a woman's advanced metastatic breast cancer was cured with an experimental immunotherapy treatment. DNA in Judy Perkins' tumor tissue was analyzed for mutations specific to her cancer; billions of her unique T cells were lab-grown & infused back into her body with the aid of two drugs.
RZd7 TIL According to Aristotle, a city of 100,000 is too numerous and “no longer a community”
R9vQ TIL a woman spent 12 years in a Kansas mental institution against her will after being diagnosed as a schizophrenic because they assumed she was mentally ill and speaking gibberish. She was really Tarahumara Indian from Mexico who spoke a rare dialect.
lOWA TIL Humans with extra nipples can only have them along two ‘milk lines’ in the human body, a remnant of our mammalian ancestors.
8a74V TIL that Sen Daniel Inouye lost his arm in WWII while holding a grenade. He pried the still-live grenade out of his severed hand, used it to kill a German solider, then kept shooting with his one remaining arm.