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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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VB454 TIL The world’s largest Chocolate Easter egg was created in Italy in 2011. It stood over 34 feet tall and weighed more than 15,000 pounds—even taller than a giraffe. It was made entirely of chocolate and set a Guinness World Record for the tallest chocolate Easter egg ever made
Me1oB TIL that malaria was once used to treat syphilis. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg injected sufferers with malaria-infected blood, causing an extremely high fever that would ultimately kill the disease. Jauregg won the Nobel Prize for the treatment and it remained in use until the development of penicillin.
Npo8 TIL “Cait Sith” from Final Fantasy VII was actually based on a Celtic lore of a winged cat that stole souls and cursed houses who didn’t leave milk out for him
OoW7Y TIL the Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India that was wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629. Of the 301 passengers who survived the wreck approximately 125 were murdered following a mutiny, including women, children and infants.
J1Bb8 TIL The nucli of multicellular fungi cells can migrate, if a fungus encounters something strange like a substance that can't be broken down, nuclei will concentrate in that area to try and find a mutation that can break it down, brute-forcing their DNA, seen also with consuming plastic and radiation