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TIL Disney paid $75 Million for rights to show Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’

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0d4D5 TIL that wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent.
V9yD TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
mNVp TIL police in Germany hunted a sinister phantom killer for two years after finding the same DNA at 39 different crime scenes - only to discover that the source was a woman who made the cotton buds used to collect the sample!
BrJak TIL that the word "Jeans" came from the french word for Genoa city, "Gênes", because French people of Nîmes were inspired by a type of pants invented in Genoa, to dress the sailors of the city.
9w8J7 TIL of Operation Bernhard when the nazis counterfeited £134 610 810 during WWII and damaged the British economy in the years afterward