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TIL that in the United States you have a 41% chance of being diagnosed with cancer at some point during your lifetime.

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7noZ TIL people sell positive pregnancy tests on Craig’s list
NX5NM TIL that it's actually possible to communicate with plants
nM7B TIL that one of the dangers of working in a tryworks (a furnace in the whaling industry) is that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man
E1Y7P TIL more people have been to space than have ridden in a B-2 stealth bomber.
awwPL TIL Windows were originally ventilation holes for stale air and smoke called Vindr Auga which means ‘the wind’s eye’ in Old Norse.