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TIL humans are killed for their organs in China. It’s not an urban legend, and it’s fairly well documented.

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YpDKv TIL For a 40 yo woman, the chance that annual mammograms give a false alarm is roughly 50/50 and the chance that the false alarm leads to unnecessary mastectomy is greater than the chance that a curable cancer is treated and prevents death. (1.1 vs. 0.16%).
QJ8gk TIL there is a giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.
XEdW6 TIL that David Byrne of Talking Heads has an Academy Award for composing the score for The Last Emperor
rxRM TIL After signing the Civil Rights act into law, LBJ said to his aide “We (Democrats) have lost the South for a generation.” He was right, as Republicans soon became the party of southern white voters.
4kg8N TIL copper is one of the few metals that can occur in nature in a directly usable metallic form, leading it to be perhaps the first metal to be mined and crafted by humans.