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TIL fewer than 7% of all wars were the result of religious differences or were religiously motivated

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00dv TIL that a 17-year old girl diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma refused chemotherapy because she did not want to put the “poison” in her body. After the state took custody of the girl from her mother, a judge mandated she undergo chemotherapy treatment. She is now in remission.
gMM17 TIL the average-sized apple has a weight force of approximately 1 Newton.
l78a5 TIL Quaternary Twins are when two babies are both cousins and genetically siblings. This happens when two identical sisters have children with two identical brothers.
v1Ae8 TIL fames children's author Shel Silverstein was a lead cartoonist at Playboy magazine before getting into children's books
Z8MBG TIL that Gordon Ramsay was covered in gasoline and held at gunpoint in Costa Rica while he was investigating illegal shark fin trading for a TV show