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TIL that breast cancer is one of the most survivable cancers over a five year period

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5Yo1B TIL in 1997 the IBM supercomputer “Big Blue” was able to beat Garry Kasparov, the world champion of chess, at his own game in a best two out of three match. This marked the first time in history that artificial intelligence was actually catching up to humans.
EJYx TIL a Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens
6KRX TIL Disney world is built upon a small city that runs the park
epB8J TIL Much of old Lisbon is prefabricated. Following the destruction of the 1755 earthquake these Pombaline buildings (named after the first Marquês de Pombal) are four story wooden framed structures made in parts elsewhere and ensembled into blocks on an exact grid.
0wEVp TIL The Cherokee Nation fought with the Confederacy during the American Civil War.