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TIL "footquakes" are created by thousands of stomping people and picked up by seismometers

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R7j19 TIL while AB+ Blood type makes someone A universal blood receiver, their plasma lacks AB antibodies making them universal plasma donors.
8eLXZ TIL of Chamoy Thipyaso who holds the record for the longest non-life-imprisonment prison sentence of 141078 years. She received the sentence for involvement in a pyramid scheme worth an estimated $200 million to $301 million.
pVZN TIL: There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
0dbMv TIL that on October 9, 2022, there was an explosion in space, called a gamma-ray burst, that was at least 549 QUINTILLION times brighter than our Sun! The explosion was so bright that it blinded telescopes, preventing a true measurement of its actual brightness!
wLOV8 TIL that in Bulgarian legends, it is said that if you walk beneath a rainbow, you will change genders