r/todayilearned • u/Freak-out-time • 29d ago

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

http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature.2015.18534
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u/EnchantedMoth3 28d ago

I don’t know. I wasn’t born with shoes but they’re totally worth it.