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TIL there is a super rare blood type called RH Null that only around 10-40 people in the world have.

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e0AgE TIL that David Bowie did not suffer from heterochromia. Rather, he had a condition known as anisocoria, where one pupil is permanently more dilated than the other, as a result of a fistfight with a friend in his youth. That friend was George Underwood, his lifelong artistic partner.
Oovxa TIL During WWII Ronald Reagan, then a captain in the First Motion Picture Unit producing training films for the US Air Force, obtained a film reel depicting the liberation of Auschwitz. He held on to it, believing doubts would someday arise as to whether the Holocaust had really happened
G9ZG TIL that hitting the snooze button can actually negate the restorative effects of sleep and make you more tired throughout the day.
XE5Ak TIL hippopotamus can defecate so much in the water they're in, that fish start to die because the bacteria in the hippo's feces use up the majority of the oxygen contained in the river.
gMNpy TIL A rapper called Mac is serving 30 years in prison for manslaughter. In 2001, the prosecutors based their case on the lyrics of his songs and he was convicted although someone else confessed to the murder. Since then, four eyewitnesses said they were coerced by prosecution to testify.