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TIL..that hospitals get FREE donated blood but then charge up to $800 for patients who use it…

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wL9A8 TIL that 6.8T of steel used to build the USS New York was salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Center after 9/11
D1xmp TIL of the Contranym, which is a word that has two contradicting definitions. Ex. Shelled means both having a shell and stripped of a shell
ZmJR TIL the original bikini swimsuit was named after the then-recent Bikini Atoll nuclear test because the inventor expected the swimsuit to be “equally explosive”
e0Or4 TIL the Delaware Aqueduct, which provides half of New York City's fresh water, has been leaking up to 35 million gallons of water per day since at least the 1990s.
nW4Y7 TIL that the teeth of a Lobster are located in their stomach. Their food is chewed in their stomach “between three grinding surfaces that look like molar surfaces.”