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TIL CDs actually made good money in the old days (this is interesting/shocking as a millennial)

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wLXRY TIL About the rarest blood on Earth. In 49 years, Rhnull has only been known in 43 or so people around the world.
DQ0EV TIL the Chinese had incense clocks in which a trail of an incense with a known rate of combustion was laid out under a labyrinth and the time calculated.
x61b0 TIL of the “Christ of Europe”, a Polish concept that sees Poland as a Christ-like martyr for the sins of Europe owing to the historical oppression suffered by the Polish people
N7eVe TIL in 1996 Tonya Harding, by then already a scandalous figure from the 1994 skating incidents, gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed at a bar in Portland, and was credited with saving her life.
nWrrB TIL that in 1903 President Teddy Roosevelt spent three nights camping with John Muir in Yosemite. For many this is considered the most significant event in the history of conservation.