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TIL People with B blood type tend to be resistant to most Norovirus strains

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697lY TIL that 17 pitchers were allowed to throw spitballs until they retired even after spitballs were banned in 1920
Lk81m TIL in 1992, a California middle school ordered teachers to cover up all "obscene" words in Fahrenheit 451 with black marker before issuing copies to students. The school stopped this practice after local newspapers commented on the irony of defacing a book that condemns censorship.
4oY5 TIL that had the Axis powers won World War 2, Hitler was saddened that the white race from Australia and New Zealand would disappear under Japan’s eventual colonization of the countries.
eNjg TIL 13 year old Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) played on a BBC talent show in 1957. When asked what he wanted to do after schooling, Page said “I want to do biological research and find a cure for cancer”
8avY8 TIL in 2015, Forbes named entrepreneur/CEO Elizabeth Holmes the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Then in 2016, allegations of fraud collapsed her company's valuation, rendering her stock worthless and reducing her net worth to zero.