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TIL that the USA has the highest cancer survival rates of any developed country, despite no universal health care

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KOE4a TIL that Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric solar system (making the sun the center of the solar system instead of earth) from his death bed because he was aware of the controversy it would cause and the danger it proposed to him. He was right.
0nKL TIL if a professional wrestler really gets injured during a match the referee will raise his arms over his head into an “X” shape to signal to backstage officials and paramedics that something is legitimately wrong.
4Xvgg TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
GpP1 TIL, Breathing the Air in Mumbai for One Day During Diwali Equivalent to 113 Cigarettes
WrBd TIL a 14-year-old faced Assault and Battery charges for attacking a teacher with a ‘weapon’. The 'weapon’ ended up being a baby carrot that she allegedly threw at the teacher.