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TIL James Harrison holds the record for 1000 blood plasma donations and has helped save more than 2 million babies, since his blood plasma, which contains an unusual antibody, was used to develop Anti-D injection that prevents the rhesus disease among new born babies.

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5Qvp TIL that if a shop or restaurant imposes a ‘Minimum Transaction Limit’ on customers, they are in violation of both Visa and MasterCards merchant terms & conditions
pOvN TIL that the Bananas we eat today are all clones of one another and they might go extinct because there’s no genetic diversity.
W7p14 TIL that an iconic seventy-foot-tall monument in Sydney’s Hyde Park was initially a sewer ventilation system. The obelisk was unveiled in 1857 under Mayor George Thornton, and thus it became known as “George Thornton’s scent bottle”.
gMPvW TIL the phrase “The First World War” was used as early as 1918, by a journalist who felt it would not be the last.
rNEjM TIL that in 1953 "Atomic Annie" a nuclear-capable artillery piece, shot the first and only nuclear artillery shell from a cannon.