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TIL In Pakistan, where the word “breast” is taboo, breast cancer is known as the “cancer of women.” 70% of women interviewed at a major hospital know nothing about the disease, which affects 1/9 women

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QJgbX TIL when asked what he was going to do next after he failed to get his party's nomination for reelection in 1856, Franklin Pierce said, “There’s nothing left to do but get drunk.” He later died of liver failure
0d4ey TIL: That the word embiggens and cromulent created by The Simpsons added to the US dictionary in 2018.
xV0LD TIL that in 1833, the first passenger ship to make a transatlantic voyage almost entirely steam-powered was the SS Royal William
kOB7d TIL a man attempted to board a cruise ship by bungee jumping off a bridge as it sailed below. He miscalculated the speed and suffered minor head injuries when he bounced off the ship’s tennis court, volleyball net and a deck railing before being left dangling in mid-air as the ship sailed away.
Lk4Dd TIL that killing a tyrant was legal in classical Greece and was called Tyrannicide