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TIL that green coffee beans produce an enzyme that converts any donor blood type to type O, the universal donor.

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OG8l7 TIL about Edwarda O'Bara, a Florida woman who went into a diabetic coma for 42 years after contracting pneumonia. Nicknamed "Florida's sleeping Snow White," her mother took care of her to the point that by 2007, 5 years before Edwarda passed, she was at least $200k in debt.
OGxme TIL there is a news maxim called, "Betteridge's Law of Headlines" that basically states any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered, "no".
R7Xw TIL. Casper the Friendly Ghost was a young teen who died of pneumonia after sledding all day.
nArd TIL an ox is just a steer (or bull) that has been trained to pull a plow, not a separate species from cattle (cows).
d88nZ Doctors still don’t know what causes it, or how to stop it