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TIL: Researchers report that they used newly discovered gut bacteria enzymes to convert type A blood to type O at a rate faster than ever before.

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0woLy TIL A 3-year-old boy was buried with his tricycle after he was killed in the atomic blast at Hiroshima. The trike is now on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
XZnj TIL an 8-year-old’s arm was bitten off by a shark, only to have it reattached after his uncle wrestled the shark to shore.
PYonJ TIL that after the Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbart Dollfuss. Fascist Italian dictator Mussolini mobilized the Italian army on the Austrian border and threatened Hitler with open war if German troops crossed into Austria.
jDaE TIL of the 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, a Soviet unit of mostly high school-aged female volunteers that fought a Panzer Division with anti-aircraft guns in the defense of Stalingrad.
KXYB TIL Tom cruise threatened Tom Kruse, the inventor of the Hoveround over the usage of his name.