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TIL pigeons can be trained to diagnose cancer from biopsy images with the same accuracy as medical pathologists

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mxnDo TIL about a Siberian Husky named Togo, he led his dog team on the 1925 Serum Run (bringing meds to stop a Diptheria epidemic), in -40°C weather. They set the record for longest distance and fastest team to do the run. However a dog named Balto received all the praise, including a statue.
16kKd TIL The Mongol Invasion ended partly since Korea in charge of shipbuilding ran out of wood
8eaZ8 TIL The video for Zombie's song Dragula features Herman's Munster Koach, not Grandpa's Dragula.
epOb6 TIL the HMS Conqueror is to date the only nuclear-powered submarine to engage and sink an enemy ship (in 1982 Falklands War).
OprX TIL A man was imprisoned for 25 years before a hotel receipt finally proved he could not have been at the scene of the crime he had been falsely convicted for.