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TIL that our blood is red because it is rich in iron. Some animals have blue blood because it is rich in copper.

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j6R4a TIL that after the Portuguese defeat in the Siege of Tangier (1437, against Morocco), Prince Ferdinand was held hostage until Portugal returned the city of Ceuta to Morocco. The Portuguese King never did that, despite his brother's pleas, and Ferdinand died in captivity, in 1443.
VBdK8 TIL that in 1913, the New Zealand national rugby team went on a North America tour to face various university teams. They played 16 matches and won all of them, scoring 610 combined points and conceding just 6
p8XRG TIL there are no railways and no roads connecting any of the towns in Greenland. Historically the major means of transportation has been by boat around the coast in summer and by dog sled in winter. Nowadays air travel, by helicopter or other aircraft, is the main way of travel.
jNJPM TIL that in order to make Leia’s message to Obi-Wan sound like it has authentically aged for The Last Jedi (34 years in universe), they re-recorded it on a tape and then “beat the crap out of it”.
QJoJ9 TIL according to models, Titanic should have tipped over about an hour into the sinking, killing practically everyone. Miraculously a rare coal fire during the voyage required coal to be shifted to the opposite side of the ship, creating a list that offset the incoming water during the sinking