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TIL that in the US lung cancer is the leading cause for cancer death in men and women. Before cigarette smoking was prevalent it was considered to be a rare disease (IE 1920's)

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Z8RPv TIL That 200 years ago, Robert Gibbon Johnson ate a whole basket of tomatoes outside a courthouse to prove that they were safe to eat and not posionous!
bPG4 TIL that no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.
wWbM TIL As part of grief counseling after her husband died, a woman decided to look for her infant that she had given up for adoption, only to find he had died 25 years before in the Lockerbie bombing.
0wrNj TIL that Big Bird, from the American TV show Sesame Street, does not frequently appear in international versions of the show. Instead, he is replaced with other oversized birds that vary in color and size depending on which country they air in.
mo1O TIL: For his third election in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt ran on his New-Nationalism philosophy, which he defined: “To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”