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TIL mosquitoes are most attracted to type O blood

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yLNX TIL movie studios hire a man w/a computer program that will predict a movie’s box office. According to his algorithm, actors make no real difference in earnings EXCEPT Will Smith, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt who all improve box office numbers.
JYVrV TIL that many US military officials, even war hawks such as Douglas MacArthur and several fleet admirals, opposed the usage of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as unnecessary and cruel. Curtis LeMay even went as far as to say "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all."
p8o5A Today I learned that Mel Gibson's father was a reactionary Catholic and antisemitic conspiracy theorist who was also the grand champion of Jeopardy! in 1968
8eRZ4 TIL people will implant magnets into their fingertips. Nerves grow around the magnet as the skin heals. The magnet pushes against magnetic fields produced by electronic devices in the surrounding area, giving a “sixth sense” of magnetic vision.
4XmB6 TIL that Canadians do say about differently, just not in the aboot way. Canadian raising makes it so that the words clout and cloud have different pronunciations of the sound [ow].