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TIL that while rare, your blood type can change.

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bba0 TIL that USA has never won Olympic medals in just 3 sports: handball, badminton, and table tennis.
y7Ne TIL that on this day 100 years ago, Jack LaLane was born. When he opened his first health club, doctors advised their patients to stay away and warned their patients that “LaLanne was an exercise ‘nut,’ whose programs would make them "muscle-bound” and cause severe medical problems.
R7pa6 TIL that four months after actress Brittany Murphy unexpectedly died at the age of 32 in her L.A. home of pneumonia and severe anemia, her widow Simon Monjack was found dead in the same home of pneumonia and severe anemia.
pYMZG TIL that when the representative from Canada signed the the Japanese Instrument of Surrender which ended the second World War, he signed in the spot assigned to France, causing the three countries behind Canada to have to sign in the wrong spot as well
logN1 TIL about the Indonesian Communist purge in 1965/66 - over 500,000 to 1 M communists were killed, and US played a significant role in the killings, supplying economic, technical and military aid to the Indonesian military when the killings began and providing "kill lists"