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TIL The most common type of brain cancer, Glioblastoma, has a typical 5-year survival rate of 5%, with only one person ever having been cured of the disease.

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epyZE TIL that FBI agent William Roemer developed so much respect for his mafia adversary Murray Humphreys, that he chose not to be involved in his arrest and expressed his respects to Humphreys family after the gangster passed.
v1Zwx TIL China was one of the only places in the world that did not release Elvis Presley's music at the time of its initial release. The few Elvis fans who managed to get their hands on his records often saw the material set ablaze by Red Guards and the government denounced his music as pornography
pb1Q TIL in a playing of Cliffhangers on Price is Right, that day’s guest host called the climber Fritz, unaware that a prize model’s husband named Fritz had gone missing in a climbing accident. When the climber fell, he yelled “There goes Fritz!” The model fled backstage to cry for the rest of the show.
8e6MG TIL in 1945 there were statues created from the measurements of 15,000 American men and women, representing the average size and shape of a U.S. citizen. They were named Normman and Norma.
v1e0j TIL of the Eidophone, an instrument which created images from the interaction of voice and materials. Inventor Margaret Watts-Hughes, a Welsh singer, was working with a device similar to Bell's Photophone when she noticed perfect geometrical patterns formed according to clarity and calibre of voice.