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TIL that a Human’s blood type can change if they receive a bone marrow transplant

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dKD8 TIL that the Red Hot Chili Peppers and their producer once set aside $2,000 out of the $5,000 EMI gave them for a demo tape so they could have money to spend on heroin and cocaine
QJZRE TIL Talk show host Jerry Springer’s parents were some of the Jews to get out of Germany before being sent to camps. His grandmother was one of the first to go to the gas chamber.
VMN5m TIL The origin of the term “Grandfather Clause” was first used to refer to statutes put in place after the Civil War by seven Southern states in an attempt to block African Americans from voting while exempting white voters from taking literacy tests required to vote.
Oorp6 TIL that a chicken has more bones in its neck than a giraffe
QNpB9 TIL ... about the Rice Hypothesis which posits cultures that engaged in wet rice farming that requires coordinated irrigation and synchronized planting tend to be collectivist while wheat farming cultures evolved to be more individualistic.