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TIL there is video of someone born in the 1700s.

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jNwnv TIL in 1985, Ryan White was refused re-entry to his school due to him having AIDS. 117 Parents and 50 teachers petitioned for his ban. People even cancelled their subscriptions as White was the paperboy and they believed they would be infected via newsprint.
jNgv TIL Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, a former Alcatraz inmate, visited San Francisco and had a touristy photo taken as an Alcatraz prisoner, AS A FUGITIVE.
XE0mR TIL military planners expected as many as 400 times the casualties that were suffered during D-Day in 1944 for the Allied landing on Japan. The operation was canceled by the atomic bombs and the Japanese surrender.
4JmJ TIL that kidney transplant is a heterotopic transplant meaning the kidney is placed in a different location than the existing kidneys as they are not removed from the body.
O1dR TIL of the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird, who was recorded singing a mating call to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.