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TIL that dietary imbalances are a far greater cause of cancer than chemical exposure

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4kobX TIL the wildlife painter John James Audubon ate all of the birds he painted, including bald eagles, snowy owls, sparrows, robins, and whooping cranes
LkxL9 TIL the Bubonic plague, the cause of the Black Death, is still around. Congo, Madagascar and Peru have several cases a year. Isolated cases occur in the United States and China as well.
wL5JP TIL That if you make a hologram of a magnifying glass, the holographic version will magnify the other objects in the hologram, just like a real one.
WlkA Today I Learned about Adam Rainer. At the age of 18 he was 4 feet tall. He then suffered from a pituitary tumor and grew to 7 feet 2 inches by age 32. He is the only person in history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
5VoYP TIL that people live year-round in houseboats on Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1,800 km north of the nearest big city (Edmonton) and just 400 km (250 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.