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TIL that nuclear tablets are given to some cancer patients to fight/kill cancerous cells

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QNPEX TIL in South Korea, there is a difference between ramen and ramyun, with ramen referring exclusively to Japanese noodles served fresh at restaurants and ramyun referring to Korean-style instant noodles served with boiling water
ANd4g TIL: Dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's Disease are cause by mechanisms similar to that a Prions
0daNv TIL 'Heroin' (diacetylmorphine) is named after the German word 'Heroisch', meaning Heroic. It was trademarked by Bayer Pharmaceuticals in 1898, though they weren't the first to discover it.
QVdk TIL there’s an island in Japan where cats outnumber humans by a ratio of approximately 6:1. Welcome to Aoshima, the cats island!
VMX6Q TIL Dolph Lundgren arrived at MIT, after earning a Master's in Chemical Engineering, with girlfriend Grace Jones on the back of his motorcycle