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YJrW TIL Charles Drew, founder of the blood bank and pioneer of successful blood transfusions died after a failed blood transfusion.
nQdb TIL Cashews are deadly poisonous before roasting and are hard to harvest because their shells are poisonous to the touch
GAljg TIL that the last of the kidnappers convicted of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping (in which 3 kidnappers hijacked a school bus with 26 children on board and forced them into a moving truck buried in a quarry before they escaped after 16 hours underground) was paroled in 2022.
66nW TIL that bared breasts were a sign of mourning in ancient Egypt and Greece.
vOMj TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” lists V. Ford as the songwriter so that the royalty checks could be used to run a soup kitchen.