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TIL a 15 year old boy named Jack Andraka made a program that can detect pancreatic cancer, a general procedure that usually costs about $2,000-$5,000 for just $3.

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woy5W TIL that in August 1996 around 80 members of the film crew for the movie Titanic, including Director James Cameron, ate lobster chowder on set that was spiked with the drug PCP. A suspect was never identified and the case was later closed in February 1999.
M7xo7 TIL Tourism was popular in ancient rome. The most popular attraction were the pyramids of giza, where local tour guides fed misinformation to the Romans to draw them in and profit from them
8DNX TIL if the EU was a country, it would be the wealthiest in the world with a GDP PPP of $19.973 trillion
YgaP TIL fans offered Weezer $10m to stop making albums
oBlRL TIL that some plants can recognize preying caterpillars by their chewing sounds and then activate chemical defenses. When sounds were played without the caterpillar being present, the plants chemical response was identical.