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TIL: Sesame Workshop sponsors and partners with children's clinics in Japan

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LQmEV TIL Heard Island and McDonald Islands contain Australia's only two active volcanoes
Br0Qb TIL, even viruses can catch viruses. (talk about a divided kingdom!!)
ANYBx TIL basal cell carcinoma grows roots. What looks like a small bump that’s not healing on top of your skin on the outside could actually be much larger underneath. It’s a very treatable skin cancer, but also has a high rate if reoccurrence.
0d41M TIL: There's a rare disorder called Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, turning people's skin into tree-like bark with wart growths due to HPV. Also known as "Tree Man Illness," the disorder is inherited when an individual inherits one copy, from each parent, of a defective gene.
pYp4Q TIL the genetic code used by almost all life on Earth appears unusually optimized to minimize the impact of mutations compared with most possible alternative genetic codes