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TIL The Deftones formed in 1988 and released their first album in 1995.

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VM0DD TIL that Timothy Ray Brown is considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. Brown had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to treat leukaemia. His transplant came from someone with a natural genetic resistance to HIV. He was cured of HIV but scientists don’t fully understand why.
oORW TIL there are Pearl Harbor “truthers” who believe FDR orchestrated the attack so he would have an excuse to declare war.
6LlZ TIL that planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker is the only human in history to have their ashes buried on the moon
R5Rlw TIL Jeffrey Dahmer accidentally roofied himself once instead of the intended victim, and he awoke to find that they had robbed him of several items of his clothing, $300, and a watch.
grrob TIL the Beverly Clock is the longest running clock, has never needed wound since its creation In 1864, and is commonly mistaken to be a perpetual motion machine