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TIL our ABO blood group antibodies are due to early minor infections likely from Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae and Influenza virus epitopes.

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kJo74 TIL that before the 19th century, the Versailles was often extremely dirty. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated in the middle of the royal chapel. Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through a courtyard.
e0yxb TIL When Cambridge graduate & visionary electronic composer Delia Derbyshire (who wrote the original Dr Who theme) applied for a position at Decca Records, she was told that they did not employ women in their recording studios.
LVEZ TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera
9YAOQ TIL that in June 2012, Customs and Border Protection held two Seattle men for two and a half hours after discovering six Kinder Surprise eggs in their car upon returning to the US from a trip to Vancouver. A border guard quoted the potential fine as US $2,500 per egg.
1ao14 TIL Stephen Colbert was invited to be the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Apparently Republicans didn't realize the character from his show was satire. Featuring some nervous laughs from George W.