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TIL horseshoe crabs’ blood does not contain hemoglobin. Instead, it contains hemocyanin, giving it a blue color. It also contains immune cells called amebocytes, which are used in medicine to detect bacterial endotoxins.

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QNK8e TIL Stu Unger, widely regarded one of the best gin and Texas hold em players of all time, won an estimated $30 million during his poker career. He died with no assets to his name, having lost much of the money betting on horses and sports, and supporting his drug habit.
5VQ1k TIL that Windows has an emoji panel if you hit the window button + the period or semicolon button, which can add even complex emojis to text. (⌐■_■)
oYwY TIL In Cambridge, Canada you can pay your parking tickets by giving toys of equal value to charity
epdAD TIL that in the 19th century, some American schools had a “dunce cap” for students who misbehaved or struggled in class.
R5aX8 TIL that in 1985, a woman named Dawn Smith worked with the FBI to draw out a serial killer who had murdered her sister Shari, talking to him by phone multiple times, even after he said God told him to kill her too. The following year, Dawn was 1st runner up in the Miss America pageant.