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TIL it costs $228,288 an hour to operate Air Force One.
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TIL about “rallying,” a phenomenon where a terminally ill person appears to get better before dying
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TIL that if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type a strong sense of impending doom will likely occur.
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TIL parents believed their 5 year-old daughter was possessed by evil spirits because of her increasing stomach, only to be told by a doctor that she was in fact, pregnant.
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TIL about Joe Kieyoomia, a Navajo soldier who survived both the Bataan Death March and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He was tortured more than other prisoners because he was mistaken for being a Japanese American traitor. After the war he returned home to New Mexico and lived to 77.
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TIL that Judith Viorst (author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) wrote a poem about her parents' deaths when she was seven. Both her parents were still alive at the time, and were not amused.