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TIL that cavemen had relatively straight teeth and that crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon

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Pk9E TIL there is an AI called Melomics which has written over 1,000,000,000 songs since July 2012 without human intervention
8eRVP TIL of the 'Fry and Turnbull effect' on prostate cancer in the UK. In 2008 news presenter Bill Turnbull and broadcaster Stephen Fry both had a prostate cancer diagnosis and urged other men to come forward for help. It caused a 36% increase in patients receiving treatment the following year.
78GP7 TIL that the town of Alvira, PA was purchased by the DOD during WW2 & all its residents displaced. They built about 150 bunkers to housed munitions. Today you can find remaining bunkers in State Game Lands 252. (Wear blaze orange!)
b0a4 TIL Truman Capote and Harper Lee were childhood next-door neighbors and best friends. Both felt alienated from their peers; Capote called the two of them “apart people”
X0j7E TIL Tempura was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese in the 16th century