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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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lLYN TIL: After the murder of a director William Taylor, a reporter tried to get a confession out of Taylor’s black valet. Believing that blacks were afraid of ghosts, she lured the valet to a cemetery where a man covered in a bed sheet appeared pretending to be a ghost. The valet then laughed at them.
wLJwP TIL that although Nolan Ryan holds 51 Major League Baseball records including most no-hitters thrown, most strikeouts, and the lowest batting average allowed over a career, he never won the Cy Young Award.
KYgx6 TIL It's Impossible to Hum While You Hold Your Nose. When a person hums, air passes between the vocal cords in the throat, causing them to vibrate. In order to hum, you'll have to have your mouth closed so that the sound emerges from your nose.
OoKK7 TIL that in 1923 the USPS instituted a requirement that all delivery addresses feature a mail-box or drop-slot to reduce the time that mail carriers waited at each door.
ZpeOa TIL: William S. Burroughs killed his wife while playing William Tell. She stood 3 meters away from him with a drinking glass on her head. Meaning to shoot the glass, Burroughs shot her in the head. He dismissed the killing as being performed by an external force that wanted to control him.