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VxpZ TIL In the late 1980s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with the AIDS virus so they could live in a sanitarium and be free from constant police-state harassment.
1aLjX Til that over 200 armed children stormed a graveyard in 1950s Scotland, hunting for an iron-fanged vampire!
xVWx1 TIL Some of the early Titanic lifeboats were launched half-full because many passengers preferred to stay on the warm ship, assuming that nearby ocean liners would rescue them in time.
wLwG1 TIL In 2003, Juan Catalan was cleared of murder charges, after outtake footage shot for “The Car Pool Lane” episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him and his daughter attending the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves baseball game some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder.
VMeJZ TIL that according to the Taeuber Paradox eliminating death from all cancers would only increase US life expectancy at birth by 3.36 years