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TIL cancer can get cancer and it's called a hypertumor. hypertumors could theortically get harnessed and used to kill cancer sometime in the future as it steals the initial tumor's nutrients and starves it

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nWKZd TIL that uterus prolapse can occur in women when the pelvic floor muscles weaken causing the uterus to descend into or even outside the vaginal canal. This condition can be caused by childbirth, aging, hormonal imbalance, chronic coughing or heavy lifting and can become fatal.
VZeG TIL that the Statue of Libertys torch was replaced in 1986 and is made of copper plated with gold, which is why it doesn’t oxidize like the rest of her.
0wQap TIL before the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant struggled financially after leaving the military to start a family, working in fields with his wife's family's slaves which was uncommon, but after acquiring a slave, William Jones, he gave him his freedom unconditionally instead of selling him for profit.
JYxrQ TIL that until 1956 after the end of British rule, Egypt hadn’t been both fully independent and ruled by native Egyptians for 2500 years
Er8d TIL The president of France said “the Germans … were actually victims of Nazi rule” and that “They were led into a war which was not theirs and which would have never been theirs.”