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TIL about the woman who could smell Parkinson’s and that certain diseases have distinctive odours

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D1pyp TIL Scientists found cancer in a 1.7 million year old foot bone and a 2 million year old spine from two ancient hominin specimens in South Africa. Before these finds, the oldest dated cancer in a human was only 120,000 years old.
4owR TIL The FBI can wiretap almost anything with the click of a button using DCSNet.
N7PO8 TIL that a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breath who was having an asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.
pGJe TIL that an Olympic rower named Henry Pearce stopped mid-race to allow ducklings to pass by him and he still won the race.
b5BQ TIL that the most dangerous ant in the world is the bulldog ant, which can literally kill humans with its stings within 15 minutes.