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TIL Deer antlers grow more like bone cancer cells than like regular cells. However, deer have one-fifth the cancer rate of other mammals. This could lead to new ways to fight cancer.

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d8LE9 TIL that there are rainforests in temperate parts of the world ie. UK, Canada and Norway
YbLx TIL: A guy tricked a bunch of scammers into handwriting a whole Harry Potter book.
4kgZg TIL: Doctors used to blow tobacco smoke up your butt to cure cold, drowsiness, save people from drowning, headaches, etc. An early example was described in 1686 which describes shoving a pipe in and then repeatedly pumping in smoke. Early critics were worried it made the brain "sooty".
loa11 TIl about the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox. An endangered species of bat found in the Philippines that has a wing span of 5.58 feet and grow as big as a human child.
mG4O TIL in early Arthurian Literature Lancelot was involved in a love triangle with Guinevere and another knight, Galehaut. The focus of this love triangle was not Guinevere, but Lancelot himself.