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TIL: Cryonics actually exists, but works only on smaller animals

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45mJ TIL the Federal Trade Commission says four cancer charities run by extended members of the same family conned donors out of $187 million from 2008 through 2012 and spent almost nothing to help actual cancer patients.
JYKZB TIL "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer won a Grammy Award in 1991... for Best R&B Song
Vo7m TIL that despite his years at the BBC, despite countless one-man broadcasts and dozens of panel discussions, no record of George Orwell’s voice survives
7MGL TIL there is an area in Venezuela where lightning strikes 280 to 3,600 times an hour, 300 nights per year. It is called Relámpago del Catatumbo, or “the everlasting storm”.
xVx9D TIL: 44 US states have libraries with 4.5" telescopes to loan out for free