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Naked mole rats do not get cancer

Now, this isn't actually true because for quite some time we (as in scientists) believed that naked mole rats did not get cancer and I was even told of this by my biology instructor. Being the curious soul that I am, I looked up the intriguing "fun fact" and to my dismay, I found that a group of researchers actually found four cases in which mole rats had cancer (the paper that they published is mentioned at the bottom of this post). The rest of this post is not going to be about naked mole rats but as a lover of accurate fun facts, I consider it my duty to inform that this fun fact is actually not that fun. Not to worry though, I will be bringing some fun facts every now and then, and occasionally debunking some just for shits and giggles because why not :) Who would've thought that summer classes would make summer more interesting? Definitely not me, and there is no way that I am saying it now but who's to say that it can't get better soon. So far all I'...