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TIL while AB+ Blood type makes someone A universal blood receiver, their plasma lacks AB antibodies making them universal plasma donors.

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yygp TIL That the federal government takes a percentage (as high as 47% in recent years) of every raisin farmer’s crops… every year… without paying for them. This is due to an arcane law still on the books from WWII reconstruction.
y0d8 TIL the word nimrod comes from a biblical figure, king Nimrod, who was a mighty hunter, but now means a stupid person after Bugs Bunny sarcastically referred to the hunter Elmer Fudd as nimrod in 1932. Most people did not get the joke and assumed it meant «stupid».
KOMQw TIL roughly 20% of suspected pedophiles in the UK are female.
b94Vp TIL Crystals in our ears regulate balance
Lkewd TIL that Hubble Space Telescope takes only B&W photos and then the colors are added later!