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TIL the Amish have lower cancer rate than the rest of the population

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69vdW TIL Professional poker great Stu Ungar overdosed on drugs during the third day of the 1990 World Series of Poker Main Event, but he had already assembled such a great chip lead that he was able to make the final table and finish 9th in the tournament without playing another hand.
X0PYP TIL that poet and cartoonist Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree) was also a frequent writer and illustrator for Playboy. His biographer believes he had sex with hundreds or thousands of women over the course of many visits to the Playboy mansion.
9YAMM TIL that a man was cured of HIV in 2007 with a bone marrow transplant from someone with genes resistant to HIV. He's the first person to ever be cured.
wXe7 TIL vaginas are called “beavers” because in the 17th century, prostitutes would wear hair pieces on their vaginas made of beaver hide
X0M08 TIL Instead of calling overprotective parents “Helicopter Parents”, people in Sweden call them “Curling Parents”