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TIL that if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type a strong sense of impending doom will likely occur.

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py6b TIL that for over a century (colonial times-WWII) May 1st was ‘Moving Day’ in New York when tenants along with their belongings abandoned their abodes to criss-cross the city in mass migration to fresh dwellings.
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