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TIL that Swedish blood banks texts donors to notify them whenever their blood helps save a life.

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9wQkr TIL about Batten Disease, an incurable form of childhood dementia
1aYyP TIL that there's a Polish village called Polonezköy in Istanbul, Turkey. It was inspired and funded by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and settled in 1842 by a small group of Polish emigrės, after the failed November Uprising. There is still a Polish community there with its own church and cemetery.
dXpE TIL that Gilbert Lewis, the man responsible for lewis dot structures was nominated for the Nobel Prize 35 times, the most nominations in history, and he didn’t win a single time.
vPbOD TIL that in 1932, Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist, made fun of Hitler’s bigotry by publishing a satire article “proving” that Hitler was Mongolian. Later, Gerlich was taken to Dachau and murdered.
Qjvd TIL a study performed by the CDC revealed that 43.8% of women in lesbian relationships had been victims of domestic abuse, making them the second most affected group, next to bisexual women.