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TIL that getting a bone marrow transplant from someone with a food allergy can transfer the allergy to the transplant recipient.

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6955Z TIL: Multimillionaire Maria Assunta, upon her death left her entire fortune of $13 million, all of her properties such as villas, homes, and land to her cat Tommaso, making the cat one of the world's richest felines. Just a few years prior, Tommaso was a stray cat she found in the streets of Rome.
R748l TIL The IRS has a contingency plan in the event of nuclear war to continue collecting taxes
Eb77 TIL a 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex was bought for $1.5 million by a New York businessman
P14yO TIL, some frogs can hiss
4mV6 TIL Disney’s Mulan grossed $300 million worldwide but barely made $30,000 in her home province of Hunan,China. Some Beijingers say they found her too self-aggrandizing, and opposes Confucian culture, which emphasizes values of modesty and community