/r/todayilearned
TIL that Churchill admired Islam so much that he considered converting in 1907, prompting his family to beg him not to.
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TIL that insects are consumed as food in 80% of the world's nations, by people in roughly 3000 ethnic groups.
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TIL that insects are consumed as food in 80% of the world's nations, by people in roughly 3000 еthnic groups.
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TIL Ralph Steinman, 2011 Nobel Medicine Laureate, treated his pancreatic cancer for four years when median survival is measured in months. Steinman devised his cancer vaccines from his research on dendritic cells, living just long enough to keep his Nobel Prize.
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TIL that indigenous Australians use honeypot ant honey to treat sore throats and as an ointment for skin infections.
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TIL that in women's Olympic gymnastics, under the 'perfect 10' scoring system seventeen gymnasts achieved a perfect ten. The scoring system was changed in 2006 and isn't scored from 10 anymore.
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TIL that on September 11, 2001, Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file his retirement paperwork. as he heard the explosion at the World Trade Center, he instantly responded and was killed as one of the towers fell. He was the sole off-duty cop killed on 9/11.
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