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TIL that the key ingredient in most dryer sheets is beef fat

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8eJ6G TIL of Jan Janský, who independently discovered the blood groups I, II, III, and IV (corresponding to modern O, A, B, and AB)
wkwY TIL that police drug dogs are actually looking for their favourite toy
noKr TIL that in 2007, while excavating for a new building in Central London, archeologists discovered the unmarked isolated remains of a teenage Roman girl. She was later reburied on site with full Roman burial rites, and her tomb is marked by a Latin inscription commemorating the “Unknown Roman Girl.”
AGW4 TIL that the dad in Gremlins was the guy who wrote Three Dog Night’s “Joy To The World” (Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog).
EV0p TIL Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.