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

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m10ME TIL about Juliane Koepcke. At age 17 she spent 11 days alone in the Amazon rainforest after her plane broke apart & scattered the passengers. She knew how to give first aid & survive in the wilderness because she'd been homeschooled in a rural area, so unlike the others she survived her journey out.
GY0L4 TIL that Dexter King, Martin Luther King's son, publicily supported James Earl Ray's efforts for a retrial as MLK's family did not believe Ray to be responsible for his death, they instead believed the US Government conspired to assassinate MLK.
GYdLQ TIL the main cause of "soft errors" in computer memory is cosmic rays. Systems buried in caves have a negligible rate of cosmic-ray induced soft errors; computers on mountains have a far higher error rate than at sea level; and the rate of errors in aircraft can be over 300 times the sea level rate
kJAY7 TIL cigarettes were invented by Spanish beggars in Seville in the 16th century, who gathered cigar stubs and rolled the leftover tobacco in paper (papeletes) into cigarettes (cigarrillos). Cigarettes acquired respectability by the late 18th century and their use spread by Portugese traders
KOPvQ TIL that while Pope John Paul II considered the word 'popemobile' to be undignified, Pope Francis has made fun of the vehicle, calling it a 'glass sardine can'.