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TIL tug-of-war is a competitive sport

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Ynn7 TIL - THC Gives Cancer Cells the Munchies Too, it causes them to undergo programmed cell death (apoptosis).
DQOwg TIL about the 1884 election. Grover Cleveland should have had an easy path to office, but then the scandal broke. He was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock and abandoning the mother. As a result, he won by a razor-thin margin of just 1,047 votes, or 0.09% of all votes cast in the state.
5YPY8 TIL the United States Postal Service is the single largest employer of veterans (22% of the postal workforce) and nearly a third of the veterans are disabled.
l7RB5 TIL that Canadian serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer told her pastor that she had murdered four people and the pastor kept his promise not to turn her in. She would go on to murder two others.
wLkGY TIL Yellowstone National Park suffered 50+ years of ecological damage due to eradication of the Gray Wolf. After re-introduction, the environment is slowly stabilizing.