🎉 World Blood Donor Day
Where: University of Vienna, Austria
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📅 On This Day: June 14
June 14: World Blood Donor Day. Today is World Blood Donor Day, a day to thank people who give blood. Karl Landsteiner, who discovered the blood groups such as A, B and O, was born on this day in 1868 in Austria; he studied and worked in Vienna. Knowing blood groups made blood transfusions safe.
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🧠 Question of the day
What did Karl Landsteiner discover?
- Blood groups
- Dinosaur fossils
- Vitamins
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Answer: Blood groups
Questions
What happened on June 14?
June 14: World Blood Donor Day. It happened in University of Vienna, Austria.
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