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TIL that the former CEO of RadioShack is now an ER Doc!! ???? I guess you really are "never too old".

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0wExv TIL Parisians used to "hang out" in the morgue situated near the Notre Dame de Paris. The macabre attraction used to lure as many as 40.000 visitors per day. There were even street vendors catering to the crowds waiting outside to take a peek at the corpses.
7beZ TIL that despite breast cancer and prostate cancer have similar rates of mortality, breast cancer research receives twice as much government funding and twice as many grants from the American Cancer Society
BrEQy TIL some birds in Australia have learnt to take flaming sticks from wildfires and carry them to other areas of woodland, in order to flush out prey.
Oo8a1 TIL that Israel's Eilat coral reef is one of the only natural reefs that is growing, instead of dying.
mBY TIL that James Madison said that “if tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”