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TIL Cancer death rates have dropped 26% since 1991, with many major forms reduced by 39 to 52%. This has saved nearly 2.4 million lives.

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a59A TIL there is a stretch of highway in British Columbia that is nicknamed the “Highway of Tears” for its long history of murders and disappearance of predominantly aboriginal women
5YmYp TIL when tickets went for sale for the first Comic Con in 1964, the first ticket was purchased by 15-year-old George R. R. Martin.
N7YG1 TIL that in 1951 the St. Louis Browns used Eddie Gaedel, a little person, to pinch hit for an easy walk. It was the first and last time a little person played in a Major League Baseball game.
jJQN TIL A man sued his wife for being ugly, and won.
Obge TIL that unlike Newton’s formulation that states gravity is instantaneous, it actually travels at the speed of light. If the sun were to instantly disappear, we would continue revolve around it for eight minutes.