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TIL The Red Cross sells the blood that people donate

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gMpLL TIL The Wolf of Wall Street was almost wholly produced with money embezzled from Malaysia's Development Fund (their former prime minister is serving jail time but the main embezzler got away)
9wWdX TIL that regular soap doesn't kill germs and bacteria, soap "traps" them on your skin and allows them to be "rinsed" off
VB0XD TIL that three years after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics, wrestler Rulon Gardner and two friends’ plane crashed into Lake Powell Utah. The three men swam an hour to the shore through 44F (7C) degree water to the shore and waited all night without shelter for rescue. All three men survived.
0dp4L TIL that 72 people lost their lives in plane crash in Nepal, because instead of deploying the flaps for landing, the co-pilot pulled to lever to cut fuel supply to the engine.
OGP7g TIL that Puerto Rican and Cuban flags are intentionally similar. The PR flag is an intentionally inverted-color version of Cuban flag.