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TIL that because blood only has a shelf life of approximately 42 days, after 9/11 and the flood of blood donations the Red Cross had to throw out all of the surplus blood, and experienced a shortage.

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9YD0p TIL NFL player Pat Tillman joined the army after 9/11 but became opposed to the war while oversees. He was then killed by a soldier standing less than 10 yards from him during friendly fire. His unit then burned his journal and the army lied to his family, claiming he'd been killed by the enemy.
Yo1v TIL that Cleopatra’s family tree was full of inbreeding, including three marriages between an uncle & niece and three between siblings. As a result, some of her ancestors were the same person. For instance, her mother was her father’s niece and thus not only her mother but also her first cousin.
e0An TIL that on the 30th anniversary of Pacman, when Google changed their logo to a playable version of Pacman. Companies reported a drop in productivity and around 4.8 million hours of work productivity was lost that day, as a result there was an estimated loss of $120,000,000 worldwide.
dlb8 TIL that the Richter Scale doesn’t stop at 10.0 and that asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was equivalent in energy release to a 13.0 earthquake
Z8gJY TIL on April 2nd, 2018, Yihong Peng, the older brother of popular LoL player, Doublelift, was arrested after he attacked their parents with a knife in front of the family home in California. His mother was pronounced dead at the scene and his father was heavily injured but later recovered.