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TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.

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yOLa TIL most of the “facts” about Nostradamus are false, his astrologies were false with lots of errors, he did not predict his own death correctly as it was his secretary who edited it after his death, etc.
BgLKL TIL the first webcam, created in 1991 at the University of Cambridge, was used to monitor a coffee pot in real time so researchers could check if there was fresh coffee without leaving their desks.
gyR4 TIL the phrase, “Kill them all and let God sort them out”, originated with the Catholic crusader Arnaud, who when burning an entire city was asked how to distinguish the Christian Cathars from the Catholics.
WkpdL TIL about Georgia Tann, who was an American child trafficker who operated a major adoption agency in Memphis, Tennesee. Tann used the agency as a front to steal and sell Children in the 1920s until 1950, when a state investigation resulted in the agency closing.
101d TIL that cats do not so much view their human owners as parents or caretakers, but as inexplicably large, non-hostile cats that just happen to be their roommates.