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TIL at least once a day, your immune system destroys a cell that could have become a cancer cell if it lived

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KVpJ TIL the French Army had an anti-tank Vespa (a Vespa mounted with a bazooka) starting in 1947.
yQxOM TIL during the golden age of piracy, pirates would abduct sea surgeons from merchant ships to provide a variety of surgical procedures.
69enJ TIL that in 1951, 250 people were poisoned by "cursed bread" made with flour tainted with fungus in a small town in France. 50 people were interned in asylums and there were 7 deaths!
aljJ TIL the Sun loses about 5.5 million tonnes of mass every second. When the sun stops shining in 5 billion years it will have lost about 0.034% of its current mass.
kwKW TIL Sony makes more than half its revenue on life insurance and banking services in Japan