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TIL my partners dad just had a bone marrow transfer, he now has two sets of DNA and his blood type has changed! On a side note, if you donated bone marrow in the last two weeks, thank you very much!❤️‍🩹

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vNjL TIL “Killing Season” is a British medical term for the time in August when newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service. Patients admitted as an emergency during “killing season” are six per cent more likely to die.
KnEw TIL: Frances greatest boxer Marcel Cerdan, he won 113 fights out of 117, 66 were Knock Outs. He died in a plane crash shortly after becoming world champion. The purpose of the journey was to see his mistress, famous singer Édith Piaf.
P14pZ TIL that Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th American President, sold firewood on street corners in St. Louis throughout the mid to late 1850's when he was struggling to make a living as a farmer.
LkMrQ TIL that the Myers-Brigg Personality Test is characterized as pseudoscience, due to its "consistent problems with repeatability, in addition to problems of whether or not it has exhaustive and mutually exclusive classifications", landing it on the same list as Modern flat Earth beliefs and astrology