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TIL about hemochromatosis, a condition that makes you absorb excess iron in your blood. The main therapy method is to donate blood every 1-16 weeks.

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VAjG TIL A German man was locked up in a high-security psychiatric hospital for claiming that a bank was involved with money-laundering, and was released years later when the bank was raided for money-laundering.
ORJX TIL When asked about the premise of training drillers to be astronauts instead of vice versa in Armageddon, Michael Bay told Ben Affleck to “Shut the fuck up”
OGnWe TIL that after WW1, Americans dubbed sauerkraut “Liberty Lettuce” as a dig at German culture & Germans in general. In addition, the United States also banned German from being taught in schools, bars & saloons stopped selling pretzels, Dachshunds became “Liberty Pups, & German composers were banned.
69eP7 TIL that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald may have been sunk by a rogue wave.
9w7nG TIL that once, in 1910, the Ottoman Empire sent 80,000 stray dogs to a desert island, where they quickly became feral and ended up cannibalizing each other. This event is known as the "Hayırsızada Incident"