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TIL of Jan Janský, who independently discovered the blood groups I, II, III, and IV (corresponding to modern O, A, B, and AB)

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65kY TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.
kJ1re TIL that if you fell asleep during a Puritan church service you would be poked by a long wooden pole.
loGBa TIL Annually around 40 million Olive Ridley hatchlings are born in Odisha coast of India and they are monitored around the year from adults laying eggs to birth. Fishing and commercial activities are banned around particular coast. One of the most successful conservation story.
JYQL4 TIL that in 1907, a Mexican railroad brakeman named Jesús Gracía saved the entire town of Nacozari by singlehandedly driving a damaged and burning train containing dynamite six kilometers away from the town before it finally exploded, killing him.
O7kX TIL that the ZIP in ZIP Code stands for: Zone Improvement Plan