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TIL after Ken Jeong’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, she told him to pursue his dreams. He put a hold on his doctor career and began his comedian one.

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PY1jJ TIL: there is a single ant mega-colony that spreads 3 continents
wLQrJ TIL doctors used to prescribe ‘Obecalp,’ a sugar pill that is literally ‘placebo’ spelled backwards, for various illnesses such as psychosomatic disorders and chronic ailments.
awdJJ TIL a Japanese/English creole language exists
WkLl4 TIL Oxford University Professor Sir Andrew Wiles was awarded the Abel Prize and $700,000 in 2016 for solving a 358-year-old math problem known as “Fermat’s Last Theorem.” Fermat himself claimed to have found proof for the theorem, but the margins of his notes weren’t wide enough to contain it.
D1KdY TIL the Second Congo War (1998-2003), relatively recent but almost unknown about in the West, has the worst death toll of any one conflict since the Second World War. 350,000 violent deaths, but the conflict is considered responsible for the deaths between 2,500,000 and 5,400,000 people.