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TIL about The Blood Types Mosquitoes Find Most Appetizing. If you are Type O, tall and exercise a lot, you might find yourself the perfect victim for your local mosquitoes.

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R5Dd6 TIL due to the failure of the Boeing 2707, a Concorde competitor, and a downturn in general aviation in the 1970s, Boeing fired 60,000 employees. So many people left Seattle that a billboard was placed near the airport that read "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights?"
MJQ7 TIL that at the end of WWII, Canada had the 3rd largest navy and the 4th largest air force despite only having a population of 12 million
J4n8 TIL in Viking culture, everyone got together to make laws and settle disputes. They called it the “Thing”
7rD1b TIL NASA used IQ tests for determining which applicants will ultimately become astronauts
OMr7 TIL: The lineage of Kim Jong-Un’s mom would undermine the Kim dynasty’s pure bloodline, and her eldest who would have ruled tried to defect