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TIL that blood comes in a rainbow of colors

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4kD4b TIL that there is an international standard for making tea. It's not for making the best tea or how tea should be made, but simply to make a cup of tea that can easily be reproduced by anybody with the right equipment at any time.
j6K4N TIL that the Neoplan Jumbocruiser was an articulated double-decker city coach that was produced between 1975-1992 and is in the Guinness World Records for being the world's largest bus (59 ft long, 13 ft high, and 8 ft 2 in wide) with a capacity for 170 passengers.
XEQ8Q TIL that renowned American conservative thinker William F Buckley Jr wrote that "everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common-needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals."
4log TIL that in 2010 a man bypassed security at the Newark Airport to kiss his girlfriend goodbye. The entire terminal was shut down for 7 hours and the man became known as “Airport Romeo.”
4gm5 TIL that Scrooge McDuck “died” in 1967