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TIL in 2009 The World Cancer Research Fund warned parents against feeding their children too many ham sandwiches due to the risk of bowel cancer from the processed meat

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A184 TIL that caterpillars form ‘processions’ of up to 300 insects in a row, mimicking a snake so as to avoid being picked off by predators
XjLj TIL the Led Zeppelin song “Gallows Pole” is a version of a centuries-old folk song. Traditionally the main character bribes the executioner to let them go. In the Zeppelin version the executioner takes the money but carries through with the execution.
0d0mA TIL that the Accessible Pedestrian Signal sound that gets pedestrians' attention the most efficiently is a "rapid tick," which sounds like a machine gun.
W7NkL TIL: The humble and magnificent chocolate chip cookie is less than 100 years old.
E10RX TIL the Ebola Virus should be called Yambuku fever, since that was the village in Zaire where it was identified in 1976 by Peter Piot, a Belgian scientist. Piot decided to name it after the river Ebola, 60 miles from Yambuku, to avoid stigmatizing the village by giving its name to a deadly disease.