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TIL The Harvard University acceptance rate is higher than applying to be a NYC sanitation worker.

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pA4Q TIL that Kyoto was spared from much of the destruction of WWII. It was removed from the atomic bomb target list (which it had headed) by the personal intervention of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who wanted to save this cultural center that he knew from his honeymoon.
neor9 TIL: Bill Nye the Science Guy is related to the founder of Nye Lubricants, whose replacement whale oil led to the international ban against whaling.
oD0K TIL that vampire bats will die if they can’t find blood for two nights in a row. Luckily, generous well-fed bats will often regurgitate blood to share with others, in exchange for grooming. This has been noted by many naturalists as an example of reciprocal altruism in nature.
e0DLn TIL Bayer sold blood-clotting agents in the 80s infected with HIV to Asia and Latin America months after withdrawing them from Europe and the US for this very problem
GlM1 TIL That the first ever Millionaire on Who wants to be a Millionaire made it to the million dollar question without using any of his life lines and used the “phone a friend” to call his dad saying he won