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TIL there are numerous voluntary animal blood banks scattered across the USA and they offer a variety of species' blood such as canine, feline, llama, ovine, and bovine.

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PKwg TIL thaat the Ebola virus is named after a nearby river Ebola where the first victim was identified in 1976
lorpB TIL coffee drinking is associated with a decreased risk of dementia. Drinking 3-5 cups of coffee per day in midlife is associated with a decreased risk of dementia by about 65%.
e0Gwg TIL of the 1980 book "Michelle Remembers", which sold millions of copies and spurred the Satanic panic of that era. Oprah even had the two authors on her show and presented their accounts of satanic abuse as pure fact. The book was later discredited.
xgDk TIL A Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lobe during World War I, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. He continued to live a full, sleepless life.
pYYY8 TIL that in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1946, inflation was so high that prices doubled every 15 hours. Something that cost 379 Hungarian pengős in Sep 1945, ended up costing 1 trillion trillion pengős by Jul 1946.