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TIL Angelina Jolie had a mastectomy due to having an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. Her chance of developing breast cancer dropped from 87% to under 5% after the mastectomy.

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dDw7K TIL that there is no recorded origin for who created the party horn but the world record for the most people blowing the party horn at the same time is held by 6,091 in Japan on 11/21/2009
Z8OaG TIL Samuel Stanhope Smith had a theory that Africans were darker because they were covered in small freckles that when combined made a “universal freckle”
yQk5e TIL that a recent study indicated 87% of former football players exhibit signs of significant brain injury. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy -CVT- has been linked to suicidal behavior, dementia, and erratic mood swings. Players as young as high-school aged were found to be affected.
KOxy9 TIL you are about 20 times more likely to be intentionally murdered in the USA than in Japan, while someone in El Salvador is even 10 times likelier to be murdered than their American counterpart.
VBgpZ TIL of Viktor Belenko, the Soviet pilot who defected with the MiG-25 (most advanced Soviet interceptor of its time), who initially assumed that his CIA handlers were keeping him in an elaborate tourist trap made to impress foreigners because he couldn't comprehend the sheer abundance he was seeing.