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TIL that white people have a higher likelihood of developing skin cancer compared to black people.

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b66YE TIL when a female porcupine is ready to mate she climbs a tree and vocalizes loudly like a cat. This mating call attracts the males, which then fight brutally with each other. It's not unusual to see a winning, mating male with a hundred or so quills of rival males' tails stuck in his face.
4XDA6 TIL After a flat hunter in Israel sent a prospective landlord ????????????‍✌️☄️????️???? emojis before declining the offer for the apartment, the emojis formed evidence used by the landlord to argue that he had been misled. The sender was ordered to pay the owner $2 200 for lost rent.
ODn1 TIL that Phil LaMarr, the actor who played Marvin in Pulp Fiction whom was famously shot in the face by accident, went on to be the voice of Hermes on Futurama, Samurai Jack and many more animated characters.
ZpvRB TIL John F Kennedy was a WW2 war hero. In 1943 the torpedo bost he was in command of was struck by a Japanese destroyer. When the boat sank, Kennedy swam a critically injured crew member 3.5 miles to shore. They were rescued by writing a message on a coconut husk.
OoQWR TIL the CEO of HSBC in Taiwan walked his lesbian employee down the aisle in 2017 after her parents refused to go to the wedding