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TIL if you’re gay you have pretty strict restrictions on donating blood

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OojAg Today I learned that the family name of Monty Python veteran, John Cleese, was actually Cheese, which his father felt was embarrassing, and changed it to Cleese when he enlisted during WWI. He later made it official by a deed poll in 1923.
bo7Z TIL Nightingale floors, or uguisubari (japanese - 鴬張り), were floors designed to make a chirping sound when walked upon. According to myth these floors were developed as a means of defense against ninjas.
R5b9j TIL the largest living organism as of June 2022 is a specimen of "Posidonia australis" seagrass (aka Poseidon’s ribbon weed).Spawned from a single seed around 4500 years old and covering approximately 200 square kilometres (77 square miles), the entire plant is connected and shares the same DNA.
j6KLp TIL that Chinese men cut off their queue (plait) as a symbol of revolution in the 19th century.
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