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TIL that cancer feeds off sugar so much that sugar is used as a marker for PET scans to diagnose cancer, and that ironically, people are usually offered a sugary drink after said PET scan

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Bgd7x TIL a Yale study found that gunshot wounds to the head or other penetrating brain injuries have a 42% chance of survival
bwX4 TIL for almost 30 years there is a sign on the flat roof of Mark Gubin’s building in the flight path of Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. A sign painted in letters 6 feet tall tells people arriving by air: “WELCOME TO CLEVELAND.”
GYx8E Today I learned that scientists gave dolphins lsd as an attempt to communicate with them
M7BVK TIL that there are no longer any significant scientific barriers to a form of human cloning. In 2018 Chinese scientists successfully cloned two crab-eating macaques named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua--the first primates to ever be successfully cloned.
5EjQ TIL that there are women out there called “tetrachromats” who, through mutation, can see millions of more colors than normal people.