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TIL researchers found that a blood test called PanSeer detected cancer in 95% of patients up to 4 years before they got a conventional cancer diagnosis. The test determines if the DNA in blood plasma was shed by tumours based on precence of particular methyl groups.

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9Y196 TIL the FBI agent, Robert Hansen, who spied for the USSR also allowed his neighbor to watch him and his wife have sex, had a long term relationship with a stripper, and was an active member of Opus Dei.
yQg4v TIL that Lenin's body is on public display in Moscow and has been almost all the time since his death 96 years ago.
rLme TIL it is illegal to sell, import or advertise baby walkers in Canada, and owners of baby walkers can face up to six months in jail.
nWp9 TIL When visiting the US, Russian President Boris Yeltsin got so drunk he left the White House, in his underwear, to go get pizza.
gMLm7 TIL about the "Mad Hatterpillar" Uraba lugens, the gum-leaf skeletoniser, Nicknamed the mad hatterpillar because of its distinctive exoskeletal feature. Every time it sheds the head portion of its exoskeleton, stays attached creating a stack of increasingly large heads!