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TIL skin cancer is 20 times more common in white people than black people

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EgpJV TIL in 1333, England’s longbowmen massacred a numerically superior Scottish army at the Battle of Halidon Hill, causing the Scots to break and flee before reaching English lines.
XBK8 TIL that when the Super Bowl and the Presidential Inauguration conflicted, the President did the coin toss ceremony for the Super Bowl and had his public inauguration the next day.
wPLo TIL that by removing the amygdala from the brain, a person stops feeling fear.
5YL68 TIL the author of Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, helped develop several Nickelodeon shows such as "Little Bear" and "Clarissa Explains It All". She was also head writer for Scholastic's "Clifford's Puppy Days".
Oowg TIL Charles Barkley was fined $10,000 for spitting on a little girl.