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TIL that Scientists have discovered 'Gwada Negative'- a brand new blood type found in just one 68 year old woman on Earth

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16pRX TIL The Sun's surface is covered in an irregular polygonal pattern known as granulation. Granules have a typical lifetime, birth to death, of around 8-20 minutes
GYRyN TIL that there is an Indian language spoken by 2 million people but can be written by only 100 people.
P1JAn TIL that Casu Marzu is a traditional Sardinian cheese made from sheep’s milk that contains live maggots, which play a crucial role in its fermentation process.
WkmrB TIL Elvis Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army. At the peak of his career, he received his draft notice for a two-year stint in the army. Fans sent tens of thousands of letters to the army asking for him to be spared, but Elvis refused to decline. He was sworn as an army private on March 24, 1958.
l7M97 TIL there were "hundreds of thousands of instances of torture" by the French military in Algeria during the Algerian War.