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TIL that due to our common primate ancestor, orangutans also have ABO blood types like humans

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8eGPL TIL During the Cold War the USA & UK Government Did Human Plutonium testing on Cancer Patients , Pregnant woman and dead babies without the knowledge of anyone
pL4p TIL in one episode of The Golden Girls, Betty says “What if there’s only one of us left?” Ironically she’s the last surviving Golden Girl and the girls sit in the order of who dies first.
0K7A TIL that Conan O'Brien was the victim of stalking and death threats and that the man who stalked and threatened him was an ordained Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Boston. The man signed his letters to O'Brien as “your priest stalker”.
mEkR TIL The British military still practice bayonet charges, and in Iraq after being ambushed and running out of ammo, 20 men from the 16th Air Assault Brigade charged 600ft through open ground, overran enemy positions that outnumbered them 5 to 1, and left with no casualties.
KOpjR TIL Giuseppe Piazzi, following his discovery of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, had difficulty tracking its position given the lack of data. Carl Friedrich Gauss, upon hearing this, worked for three months on the problem and successfully predicted its position within half a degree a year after discovery.