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TIL Portugese football star and Real Madrid front man Christiano Ronaldo refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood.

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Lvjp TIL that there is a 200 foot stuffed pink bunny with its entrails spilling out over a hill in Italy.
W7Ya8 TIL about MS St. Louis, a refugee ship that left Hamburg in May 1939 carrying a load of passengers, most of them Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. They were subsequently turned away by Cuba, the US, and Canada. The ship was forced to dock at Antwerp, and the passengers divvied up to various countries.
kJG1d TIL a French occultist built a device to test the hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they mate.
XpKk TIL a Filipino president pardoned a Japanese soldier in 1974 who committed multiple murders and engaged police in numerous shootouts, because the soldier refused to believe that WWII was over.
8MbK TIL there are series of species where species A can interbreed with species B, and species B with species C, but not species A with species C. They’re called ring species.