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TIL PETA owns shares of Seaworld so it can propose shareholder resolutions

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lZA7 TIL in Japan, your blood type is treated like your Zodiac sign is in the West, but they’re even more serious about it. “What’s your blood type?” is a common question to be asked, and there are even blood type horoscopes, etc.
M7PO7 TIL Since the World Chess Championship started in 1886, there has only ever been one instance of the title being won by a checkmate, back in 1929.
OjgL TIL that FDR founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if every American gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.”
0wkwj TIL until the 60's, computing power was measured in "Kilo-girls" as the earliest computers where humans. And, more often than not, female
dDDVQ TIL John Tunstall who was portrayed as a older gentleman in the movie Young Guns was only 24 when he died in the Lincoln County War.