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TIL that taller people have an increased risk of getting cancer, with the risk increasing by about 10% for every 4 inches in height. This is because taller people have more cells, and therefore there are more chances for something to go wrong.

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D19Br TIL "Noodling" as a means of catching catfish using bare hands as bait, is practiced primarily in the South. It requires fishermen to reach into submerged breeding holes in riverbanks in hopes that the catfish will swim forward and latch onto their hand or is large enough to be grabbed by the gills
gDmA TIL that William Hung of American Idol ‘She Bangs’ fame retired from music in 2011 and is now a Los Angeles crime scene analyst
Yr5v TIL of Manfred Ramminger. A KGB Agent who walked into a Nato base, stole a Sidewinder missle, loaded it into his mercedes, drove it home and than shipped it by Mail to Moscow
dDa6j TIL that Henry VIII kept an African grey parrot who amused itself by calling the boatman across the water to the palace, who was then paid for his efforts
DZeD TIL Sir William Henry Bragg and his son, William Lawrence Bragg is the only father and son to share a Nobel Prize in physics.