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TIL African Americans have the highest incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer of any ethnic group in the United States

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DoQe TIL Walking Corpse Syndrome is a mental disorder in which patients experience delusions that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying or have lost their vital organs.
KbVR TIL that Worcestershire sauce is the result of a British recreation of Indian sauces.
DQ76J TIL Dorothy Thompson was a major celebrity in the 20th century, the "First Lady of American Journalism", equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt, and the first American journalist to be expelled by Nazi Germany
Ll5m TIL The time it takes our sun to orbit the center of the Milky Way is called a “Galactic Year” and is ~225 million Earth years. By that definition, dinosaurs went extinct last year, our sun is an adult at 18.4 years old, and the Big Bang happened just 61 years ago.
0wRpN TIL of Kevin Mitnick who was jailed for hacking and spent 8 months of his sentence in solitary confinement, as he was deemed capable of launching nuclear missiles by whistling to NORAD’s modem via payphone.