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TIL Golden Blood, is the rarest blood type, with only about 43 people having been reported to have it worldwide

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oRNKL TIL that the actor Ken Curtis, famous for playing the crotchety deputy Festus on the TV show Gunsmoke, started his career playing clarinet in Tommy Dorsey's band and took over as singer when Frank Sinatra left the band.
QNXwe TIL about the 1944-54 Kirov wolf attacks. Due to the need of hunters and rifles for WW2, man-eating wolf packs in Russian Kirov region lost their fear of humans, advanced into towns and villages in broad daylight, hunting mainly children and teenagers, killing 22.
aw0eZ TIL There is a $1m treasure chest waiting to be discovered in the Rocky Mountains if the 9 clues in a 24-line poem can be solved
D1pdJ TIL Michelle Rodriguez answered a casting call ad in a newspaper and in her first audition ever got the lead role in Girlfight. She has been in at least one movie every year since.
Ypl8d TIL that the last recorded member of the Palaiologos dynasty, rulers of the Byzantine Empire from 1259 until its fall to the Ottomans in 1453, was a woman named Godscall Paleologue who was born in London in 1694. Nothing else is known about her.