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TIL that a medically sound symptom for having a mismatched blood transfusion is an immediate sense of impending doom.

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b6rdN TIL that in 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni famously canned 90 tins of his own feces, titled them "Artist's Shit," and sold them at the price of their equivalent weight in gold.
JYnXl TIL in the Ancient Greek Olympics, competitors found cheating were fined. The money would pay for a statue of Zeus with a plaque shaming the offender, and placed on the road to the stadium.
R7y88 TIL that both India and Pakistan had british officers commanding their respective armies in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947
OobgY TIL we went from Trentino to Quarantino as cities extended the isolation period of illness from 30 to 40 days. [Trentine means 30 days isolation. Quarantine means 40 days isolation.]
AWVw TIL a square with rounded corners is called a squircle