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TIL Naked mole rats are immune to cancer

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yQ9El TIL that there are "hedomism calculators" like Felicific Calculus to work out how much pleasure or pain an act may produce
gM9Q8 TIL about eight-year-old Christian McPhilamy. He endured bullying as a result of him deciding to grow his hair out long in order to donate it to kids who lost their hair as a result of cancer.
X00Er TIL that a third of the items returned to Amazon are simply destroyed in order to save time and space.
a8Jd0 TIL about The 'Keeper of the Apes' - British forces who cared for a population of Barbary macaques in Gibraltar from 1915 to 1991,
kWbd TIL that American commandos in Vietnam would print pornographic posters with small print in Vietnamese, then post them on trees with a land mine underneath.