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TIL there has been a reported case of human-to-human cancer transmission, where a surgeon cut his hand while resecting a tumor and seeded the patient’s cancer cells on his hand.

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JYGGm TIL: Of Michael Fagan an unemployed man down on his luck who broke into Buckingham palace twice, stole a bottle of wine on first entry, returned a week later and spoke directly to the queen in her own bed to complain of the current state and of the UK.
yQxJp TIL during WWII the British planned to build a giant aircraft carrier out of ice (actually a wood pulp/ice mix) to protect the convoys in the Atlantic from German U boats. The project ended owing to rising costs and the development of longer-range aircraft that closed the gap in air coverage.
Y7R1G TIL Charles Joseph Bonaparte THE grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte created the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI)
b6yP0 TIL The Japanese Spider Crab can weigh 40lbs and live for 100 years. It has a leg span of 13 feet.
VMjb8 TIL Wyoming's largest city, Cheyenne, only has a population of 63,235.