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TIL: being in space destroys more red blood cells

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16AO4 TIL the battle of D-Day that helped end WWII started with the wounded left to drown in the rising tide. If the men got to the beach at all, they were soaked, half-drowned, and seriously weakened from seasickness. They were often without an officer, a functioning radio, or even a working weapon.
yVJ9a TIL of Saint Pedro de Arbués, arguably the patron saint of killing Jews. He was a Spanish Inquisitor assassinated by the Jews he tried to oppress. He canonized as a saint in in 1867 by Pope Pius IX for his actions against the Jews.
yQW4p TIL that no person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
EgkK7 TIL that renaissance painter El Greco made an offer to the Pope to repaint the Sistine Chapel over Michelangelo's "Last Judgement"
m1gGO TIL that the U.S. once accidentally dropped an atomic bomb on North Carolina in 1961, and only one tiny safety switch prevented a nuclear explosion.