TIL That elephants stay cancer free as they have 20 copies of a key tumor-fighting gene; humans have just one. [source, comments]

TIL that while searching for the three missing civil rights workers in 1964 (Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner) in the Bogue Chitto swamp near Philadelphia Mississippi, the Navy searchers failed to find the civil rights workers, but did find eight other bodies. [source, comments]

TIL the sex worker arrested with Hugh Grant earned $1.6 million from publicity related to her arrest and used the money to buy a home in Beverly Hills and put her daughters through private school. [source, comments]