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TIL: Lack of exposure to infections is a likely cause of cancer in children.

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7wmP TIL that the surname “Kennedy” means “ugly head” in Gaelic.
YQWP TIL Costa Rica is home to 10% of the world’s known butterfly species.
VrND TIL that Japanese death row inmates aren’t given their execution date until a few hours prior and their family isn’t told until after they’re already dead.
dmAj TIL that the Skype was initially named as “Sky peer-to-peer”, which was then abbreviated to “Skyper”.
KpMB TIL Genghis Khan killed so many people he cleaned about 700 million tons of Carbon from the atmosphere. It may be the first case of man made global cooling.