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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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MXAK TIL that the current pope penned a document on how to cover up a pedophile priest scandal
wLAj6 TIL about Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish sailor who was shipwrecked along the Yucatan Peninsula in 1511 and taken as a slave by a Mayan lord. He earned his freedom, became a respected Mayan warrior, and died fighting Spanish colonization of indigenous lands.
0dMoR TIL: Your fingernail grows about 1 nanometer per second, so in a few seconds, it grows roughly the length of the smallest features in modern 3nm CPUs.
L5Y0 TIL That out of the 120,000 apps in Blackberry App World 47,000 of them are made by one developer
Ymvx TIL: US retail sales of gasoline have more than halved in the last decade (2002-2012)