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TIL that scientists diagnosed a 2250-year old Egyptian mummy with metastatic prostate cancer

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GY8WG TIL about half of America’s states owe their names to Native American origin
bdWa TIL of Charles Alvin Beckwith, creator of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force unit. He once contracted leptospirosis so severe the doctors did not expect him to live; he made a full recovery in months. He was later critically wounded by a .50 round and expected to die. Within months, he fully recovered.
9Y4NB TIL that Air Transat Flight 236 lost both engines over the Atlantic, and set a glide record for a commercial airliner of 120km as the pilot successfully made an emergency landing at Lajes Air Base in the Azores.
4jow TIL in 2013 there was a Japanese reality show called “Orgasm Wars”, in which a gay man tries to make a straight man climax by giving him a blowjob for 40 minutes
0w5j TIL Czech Republic had the highest beer consumption per capita for the 18th consecutive year in 2010