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TIL that Phillip Morris, namesake of the company that sells Marlboro, died of lung cancer at 38.

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0d8yL TIL Mark Ruffalo dreamt he had a brain tumour in 2001. After visiting a doctor, they discovered a mass the size of a golf ball behind his ear.
bj70 TIL the more (and longer) a person drinks alcohol, the more damage they’ll inflict on the parts of their brain controlling impulse and judgment.
JYxy1 TIL it’s legal in the US for companies to sell or lease human bodies that have been “donated to science.” Many donated bodies have to be paid for by researchers, and funeral homes earn a kickback for every “donation.”
B4ek TIL that red velvet cake is just chocolate cake with red food couloring
GARk5 TIL of Fort Stevens, Oregon, the only military installation in the mainland US to be attacked during World War 2. A Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast and fired a volley of shells at the fort, which took no damage aside from the backstop of its baseball field.