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TIL less than 7 percent of people have a negative blood type

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KrXE TIL that Saudi Arabia’s religious police have an “Anti-Witchcraft Unit” who operate a hotline to which citizens can report magic.
XEjQ6 TIL: The Turkish city of Istanbul used to be called Constantinople
68Zl TIL that Shanghai’s population is 24 million, more than the entire population of Australia, packed into a city half the size of Sydney.
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d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.