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TIL the Hollywood sign used to say Hollywoodland

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VBVxD TIL that due to our common primate ancestor, orangutans also have ABO blood types like humans
d8w4r Today I Learned about Ray Holmes, an RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain who saved Buckingham Palace from destruction by ramming a German aircraft, nearly killing himself in the process, and ejecting, only to land in a garbage bin.
R5WRj TIL: Harvard conducted a study where they track the health of their students from 1938 to 2017. Happiness and close relationships with family are a bigger factor than IQ, wealth, genes, etc in a healthy life. Good marriages lead to less mental deterioration than stressful ones.
5Y88B TIL J Dilla suffered from thrombocytopenic purpura (a rare blood disease). It was not widely known how serious his condition was until his 2005 European tour, when he performed from a wheelchair.
0w701 TIL Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on the golden girls