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TIL that in 1979, Elvita Adams jumped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building in an attempted suicide, only to be blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind. Her only injury was a broken hip.

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Xj0P TIL Steve Crohn was one of the first studied cases of HIV immunity. His Immunity was due to a mutation in the CCR5 delta-5 receptor of CD4-t*cells, this prevented the virus from “entering” the immune cell. He committed suicide at the age of 66 after most of his friends died from the disease.
1agLP TIL James Longstreet, one of the most skilled confederate generals in the civil war, later felt so guilty that he became a civil rights advocate and led a militia of black soldiers. Today he is remembered as a traitor in the South
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