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TIL The national average is that 47 percent of people on bone marrow donor registries say no when they are asked to donate.

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ANppa TIL only three single-letter .com domain names were registered before Internet pioneer Jon Postel registered the other 23 letters of the alphabet. IANA now holds these in reserve to prevent single entities from controlling a letter of the alphabet.
VBL0Z TIL of Luckner Cambronne a Haitian militia leader under Francois Duvalier, who became known as the Vampire of the Caribbean for selling 1,600 gallons of blood plasma a month, from his victims to the United States.
8eL8L TIL[nt] about the only word in English with a silent v: Milngavie, a Scottish town.
m1kJv TIL that Fred Franzia created the low-cost wine brand 'Two Buck Chuck' after purchasing the Charles Shaw name from a bankrupt winery for $27k. When asked why his wine was cheaper than water, he replied, ' They're overcharging for the water. Don't you get it ? '
VMo0 TIL that a space venture backed by Google and Microsoft founders are planning to mine near-Earth asteroids to extract ice deposits, precious metals and minerals.