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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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5VBZk TIL that Kurioshi, Japan, has purpose-built tsunami evacuation towers
1vxD TIL that in May 1959, when Billie Holiday was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York with liver and heart disease, she was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying. Her hospital room was raided by police and she remained under police guard until her death in July.
WkVXN TIL that until 1930, Brazil was actually called The "United States of Brazil". That means that until relatively recently, there was a USA and a USB in the American continent, one North one South.
woev8 TIL that, in 2004, a single 13-year-old was banned from using the word "grass" anywhere in England and Wales
7Lmr TIL that famous paparazzo Ron Galella was once punched in the face so hard by Marlon Brando that his jaw broke and he lost five teeth. The next time he took Brando’s picture, he wore a football helmet.