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TIL President Gerald Ford was in college during the Depression. Desperate for money, every two months he sold his blood for $25

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xVwM1 TIL About the Cardiff Tower. Hidden in plain sight in a largely Jewish community just south of Beverly Hills, exists a working oil derrick, disguised to look like a Synagogue.
a8vab TIL Rockall is an uninhabited islet in the United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone (EEC). In 1997 the British recognized Rockall wasn't an island and gave up all EEC claims it could have made, Rockall is the only case of a state voluntarily downgrading an insular feature to "a rock".
GYMmJ TIL about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, a modern cosmological model that says the universe iterates through infinite cycles with one universe's infinite expansion eventually giving rise to the next universe's Big Bang singularity.
ADkDx TIL there was a study where men and women asked people on campus whether they would like to sleep with them. The women had a 75% success rate, the men had 0%
vggB TIL in 1899 the southern States had four days of arctic cold, enough to freeze the entire length of the Mississippi River