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TIL Your immune system destroys at least one cell every day that would have become cancer if it lived

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Pm0G TIL After winning 17 Million in the Florida lottery in ‘06, Abraham Shakespeare went missing in '09 and was found in '10 buried under a concrete slab of an acquaintance’s home
D1m8P TIL "Begging the question" does not mean "Raising the question", but is a common logical fallacy, where the premises of an argument already assume the conclusion to be true, for example, "My experience of reality must be true, because what I see, hear, smell, and touch feels so real."
GA5dJ TIL that having a high temperature isn’t necessarily a fever; it is only a fever if caused by cytokine activation
DQwXV TIL Male mice are utterly terrified of bananas
OopoX TIL Ordering and eating food in courses is called Russian service or Service a la Russe. As it was introduced to France in 1810 by the Russian ambassador. Prior to this 'French service' was the norm in most countries with all food being placed on the table and diners serving themselves