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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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npP7 TIL that in Singapore anyone born in the year 2000 or later is forever banned from buying cigarettes or any other tobacco related product.
p8WnG TIL that Anna Bågenholm, who had one of the lowest survived body temperatures ever recorded in a human at 56.7 °F, avoided permanent brain damage because her brain was so cold when her heart stopped that her brain cells needed very little oxygen. Thus, her brain survived for a prolonged time.
WK84 TIL Pemba Dorje climbed Mount Everest in just 8 hours and 10 minutes. This is the fastest ascent from the south base camp. He did this after a losing a bitter dispute with Lakpa Gelu Sherpa who set the previous record.
QNaDE TIL: That human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. No matter how well you wash, nearly every nook and cranny of your body is covered in microscopic creatures. The greatest concentration of this microscopic life is in the dark murky depths of our oxygen-deprived bowels.
RGQ8 TIL shortly before she died, Majel Barrett recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds, allowing her voice to be used in future products outside of Star Trek and, quite possibly, as the computer voice in Star Trek: Discovery. Thus, she could live on as the voice of Starfleet possibly for all time.