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TIL that even though bigger animals have more cells (more cells=more mutations), they aren't more susceptible to cancer. It's called Peto's Paradox.

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gOeD TIL that the rapper Drake graduated high school on October 2012 at the age of 25
44Jb TIL Katey Sagal of Sons of Anarchy used to be a backup singer for Bob Dylan and Bette Midler
xVjp7 TIL The distress signal "Mayday" originates from a French phrase “m’aidez” or “m’aider”, which literally means ‘help me’.
ObZL TIL that according to the Inflation theory, our unobservable universe may be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the already mind-bogglingly massive observable universe.