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TIL of Luckner Cambronne a Haitian militia leader under Francois Duvalier, who became known as the Vampire of the Caribbean for selling 1,600 gallons of blood plasma a month, from his victims to the United States.

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78RPp TIL of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates UFOs and unexplained phenomena in the air, sea, space, and on land. These are referred to as "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP), or "anomalies".
E1DPW TIL that in 2005, Houston was struck by Hurricane Rita, which resulted in 3.7m people evacuating the area. The evacuation caused a traffic jam that spanned 100 miles, lasted days, and killed dozens of people. Hurricane Rita then ended up changing course and only dealt Houston a glancing blow.
v1nPL TIL that origami as we know it today was due to Akira Yoshizawa who, in his own estimation created more than 50,000 models of which only a few hundred were presented as diagrams in his 18 books; he lived in poverty from 1937 until 1954, when he published his first monograph and got his first exhibit
R7jW6 TIL VALVe, the creator of half life and team fortress 2 also created steam
PMjn TIL there is less time between now and when Cleopatra reigned, then there was between Cleopatra and when most of the pyramids had been built…