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TIL Rhnull, is the rarest type of blood on earth, is called Golden blood. Only 45 people our known to have it.

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R7eGw TIL about Beauty, a Bald Eagle whose beak was shot off by a hunter. Bird sanctuary workers 3D-printed a prosthetic beak for her until her actual beak grew back.
Oo1YR TIL Mozilla is originally a portmanteau of "Mosaic Killer", the dominant browser at the time. Mosaic was then renamed to Netscape, which forced Microsoft to in turn create Internet Explorer.
JYXYm TIL that when holocaust survivors were given candy/food by the allied troops upon liberation, many died on the spot (or soon after) due to re-feeding syndrome
WkXaL TIL a 60-year-old American man with severe amnesia was blind for 9 months due not being able to afford cataract surgery. When a charity paid for it and he could see again, he was shocked to discover he was around 20 years older than he thought he was.
epZWk TIL of Hurricane Bawbag. It was a storm that hit Scotland in 2011 and was named after the Scottish word for scrotum.