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

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XEYn8 TIL Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s wife kept hanging up on his phone calls from the ISS thinking he was a telemarketer. The 3 second delay made her think no one was on the other side of the line when she’d answer. NASA then gave her the ISS’s phone number so her phone read “SPACE” each time he called.
v1jO4 TIL that Sweden is actually increasing forest biomass despite being the second largest exporter of paper in the world because they plant 3 trees for each 1 they cut down
mO7p TIL In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
YpMn7 TIL U.S. flight attendants have higher rates of breast cancer, uterine cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, thyroid cancer, and cervical cancer, when compared with the general public, likely due to regular exposure to cosmic ionizing radiation
VBp0 TIL that in 2000, a Hawaii pidgin translation of the New Testament, worked on by a Cornell University professor and 26 speakers for 12 years, was published. It was entitled, quite simply, “Da Jesus Book”.