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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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rRdw0 TIL Due to the variety of its ecosystems, which include mountains, woods, plains, largely uninhabited territories, streams, rocky coasts, and long sandy beaches, the island of Sardinia has been defined metaphorically as a micro-continent.
9YKrD TIL that a 'basket case' was coined in WWI to describe a soldier who had lost his limbs in battle and was carried out 'in a basket'
yQRe8 TIL an early Oral Roberts Ministries world headquarters building was equipped with what was said to be “the world’s largest freight elevator, reputedly capable of taking an entire U.S. Postal truck loaded with the mailed donations of Roberts’ faithful TV audience to a secure processing room.”
kOgo5 TIL that the U.S military has been developing a sniper rifle that can be controlled with an Xbox 360 controller while being flown around by an autonomous drone.
9mB7 TIL In English, zero quantities are plural by default. Therefore you shall write “0 results found”, “I have found no results”