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TIL "Helicobacter pylori" is responsible for stomach cancer

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VvyG TIL Will.I.Am created the theme song for Samurai Jack
r7kM TIL that Ben Franklin wasn’t allowed to write the declaration of Independence because it was feared that he would hide a joke in it.
BreRb TIL: In Soviet labor camps, prisoners would ingest a condom attached to a length of rubber tubing, fill it up with raw alcohol then smuggle themselves back into the camp. Once there, they would be suspended upside down by the other prisoners and used as a human keg.
VB668 TIL that "floss" is actually an acronym standing for "Frictional Ligation Of Subgingival Spaces"
yev TIL: The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were really violent and gory comic books.