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TIL The Red Cross sells the blood that people donate

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0wEpN TIL about Product 19. A cereal that was made by Kellogg's as a competitor to General Mills' Total cereal, by providing 100% daily amounts of various minerals and vitamins. It existed from 1967-2016 and was named simply due to being the 19th version of that cereal.
6LaX TIL that it snows metal on Venus
lyK7 TIL the TV show “The Amazing World of Gumball” had a Chinese ripoff called “Miracle Star”. Gumball recently aired an episode calling out and attacking its Chinese ripoff.
yVbYa TIL the last on-screen appearance Orson Welles ever made was on the TV show Moonlighting, where he read an introduction to assure audiences that the sudden shift to black-and-white is not a sign there is something wrong with their televisions.
LQgW9 TIL that Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx corresponded during the Civil War. Marx and the International Working Man's Association in London congratulated Lincoln on his reelection and declared "the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery".