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TIL in Ireland they used to give you a pint of Guinness beer for a pint of donated blood to replace the iron. However this was cancelled in 2012.

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wLjL6 TIL when British cave dive experts went to Thailand to rescue the lost soccer team, they first had rescue four rescuers who were left behind and forgotten when the cave had to be abandoned due to flooding. The men were asleep on a ledge and had missed the call to evacuate.
pYekN TIL that Texas has an embassy in Washington DC.
e0gZJ TIL Before his death, author J M Barrie’s gave copyrights of his book to the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in 1929. The book was Peter Pan.
oBgRR TIL about the Bigfin Squid. The arms and tentacles of this beast are believed to be between 4-8 m (13-26 ft) long. These appendages are held perpendicular to the body, creating "elbows". These squids drag their long arms across ocean floor and pick up anything they catch to eat.
oRdrr TIL that of the 5 ships and 270 men who started the Magellan Expedition, only 1 ship and 18 men completed the circumnavigation of the Earth together. (17 others survived Portuguese capture and hard labor and returned later.)