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TIL many doctors have stopped calling cancer treatment a "fight" or "battle". They argue these terms misrepresent how treatment works and if treatments fail, the patient is left with guilt and a false belief they didn't "fight" hard enough.

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6dA8 TIL Young St. Bernard dogs learn how to rescue lost travelers through modeling the behavior of older dogs. They do not receive any special training, and the dogs decide for themselves if they will specialize in staying with the victim or going to seek help.
KOnxJ TIL that king George I once organized a concert on the river Thames. He hired G. F. Handel and the result was 'water music', a collection of 3 suites. It was played by 50 performers sailing from Whitehall to Chelsea on a barge. The king liked the composition so much that he asked for 3 encores.
gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."
rR8Xd TIL about black MIDIs, a genre of electronic music involving piano songs containing a huge number of notes, typically in the thousands, millions, billions, or even trillions.
Z8ykB TIL Mel Brooks was a mine clearer in WW2 “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in this world are combat and engineering.”