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TIL dogs can be blood donors

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6ELyw TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.
rZm0 TIL that President Herbert Hoover who resided over the beginning of the Great Depression had never once been elected to a government office before becoming President of the United States.
X4vQ TIL Forrest Gump’s investment in Apple stock would be worth nearly $7billion today.
kJVVd TIL After running out of cash, poker player Andrei Karpov bet and subsequently lost his wife in a poker game. When she found out she divorced him and willingly started dating (and eventually married) the winner.
e0ekk TIL that whale oil was used in transmission fluid in automobiles until the late 1970s.