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TIL in Japan, your blood type is treated like your Zodiac sign is in the West, but they’re even more serious about it. “What’s your blood type?” is a common question to be asked, and there are even blood type horoscopes, etc.

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O9n4 TIL there is an animal that looks like a gremlin with a “long, bony, witch-like middle finger” called an Aye Aye. These gentle, harmless animals are killed due to local superstition that aye-ayes are harbingers of death, and if an aye-aye points its middle finger at you, it’s a death sentence.
1aAEr TIL An elephant's memory is so good that it not only recognizes all the members of its own clan, but even other creatures who leave a strong impression on them. A pair of elephants who had performed in a circus together were able to recognize each other when they met again after 20 years.
jeXj TIL One of Dalai Lama’s hobbies is to repair watches.
9YGBQ TIL: That on the same day, July 23rd, 1943, both The United States and Nazi Germany officially submitted requests to their respective aircraft manufacturers for bombers capable of crossing the Atlantic ocean.
yPVJ TIL that Kathryn Beaumont at 13 voiced Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and did so again for “Kingdom Hearts” at age 64.