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TIL The Red Cross throws out blood if they deem it too risky, even if the donator is disease free.

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loxpA TIL on Valentine's Day of 1884, just 36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Alice, future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt held his wife as she passed away from undiagnosed Bright's disease. Just hours before, in the same house, he had already said a final goodbye to his mother, Martha.
X6kE TIL that Mussolini was expelled from school when he was 10 for stabbing a classmate. He did the same thing at his next school.
8OOG TIL that Jenna Miscavige Hill, daughter of Scientology leader David Miscavige, first learned of the church’s closely-guarded secret doctrines concerning aliens via the “South Park” episode “Trapped in the Closet”
6o87 TIL that Franken-Berry (children’s cereal) Used to Turn People’s Poo Pink Due to an Inability To Break Down the Heavily-Dyed Cereal. The Symptom Was Referred to as “Franken-Berry Stool”
OoMJL TIL Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise in the world with $59 Billion in revenue, $16 Billion more than Star Wars