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TIL that the Red Cross charges hospitals about $150 for each pint of blood.

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6jdm TIL of Kiyoko Matsumoto, who in 1933 committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. Japan. This started a trend in Japan, and in the year after her death 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater
x6bG0 TIL that the coco de mer, a palm tree species found in the Seychelles archipelago, was believed in legend to have sex on stormy nights, due to the male trees' catkins looking like penises and females' fruits looking like butts. The legend states those who see the trees screwing will go blind.
gMAky TIL That in Canada, you can write a letter to Santa in the mail and will receive one back. His postal (zip) code is HOH OHO.
neXgb TIL of Dmitry Argarkov who scanned a credit card agreement, edited it, and returned it with a 0% interest rate and no limit in the new terms. The bank signed and approved without reading and a judge held them to it.
oaLA TIL In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined.