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TIL Cancer patients who opt for alternative therapy die at twice the rate of those who stick with conventional cancer therapy.

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8aPoG TIL - The "Thagomizer", the spiked tail on a stegosaurid dinosaur, didn't have an official name till the cartoonist Gary Larson did a comic about it, named it, and the scientific community just accepted it and started using it too.
0Wl1 TIL there are ATMs in Dubai that dispense gold bars
J1brm Til the oriental Orthodox Church split from the rest of Christianity over their belief of Jesus nature. The oriental church believe he had one nature that is both human and divine at the same time. We’ll most other churches believe he had two natures that are divine and human united into person.
ADmBd TIL Since inmates are not allowed to possess cash there’s been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since 2004.
9Y1xG TIL The US corn industry has mostly grown through increasing government support during the last century. In the process corn became so abundant and cheap that it enabled the existence of CAFOS, ethanol and HFCS production which in turn have profoundly affected the environment and human health.