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TIL The Red Cross sells the blood that people donate

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epDeL TIL of a calculator, by The Columbia Journalism Review, which works out your own newsworthiness if you were to go missing. It ranks from 0 (no shit given) to 128 (non-stop news coverage).
nerG TIL that a 14 year old boy has managed to have over 12 billion trees planted all over the world
w8XE TIL that many countries and at least 9 U.S. states chemically castrate sex offenders.
RDQQ TIL CNN International refused to show a documentary on Bahrain’s human rights violations because they are paid by the Bahrain Regime to show the country in a good light
kJO77 TIL in 2011, a 29-year-old Australian bartender found an ATM glitch that allowed him to withdraw way beyond his balance. In a bender that lasted four-and-half months, he managed to spend around $1.6 million of the bank’s money.