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TIL The Red Cross sells the blood that people donate

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XEOYE TIL in 2006 a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches. When passengers alerted crew they could smell burning the flight made an emergency landing and the FBI were called in to conduct an investigation
87dL TIL the eyes of Children’s cereal box characters are angled down 10 degrees in order to make eye contact with children. Adult cereal boxes look straight ahead.
Bg05W TIL that there were several abortive assassination attempts on Hitler’s life before Stauffenberg finally went ahead with Operation Valkyrie on July 20th 1944.
98vG TIL that James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear will script and shoot a car chase for the new Die Hard movie.
OkxL TIL the US temporarily had universal child care during World War II to support working mothers. In 1971, Congress passed a bill that would have provided it permanently, only to have it vetoed by Richard Nixon at the urging of Pat Buchanan.