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TIL HIV was circulating in the US decades before Patient Zero, the flight attendant usually believed to be the source of the AIDS epidemic

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y11p TIL there was some controversy to the inclusion of Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode’ on the Voyager Golden Record. Carl Sagan was told that rock music was adolescent. Sagan responded, “There are a lot of adolescents on the planet.”
6MkJ TIL that Cambodia has an unemployment rate of approximately 0%
N4BM TIL 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII
D1nZj TIL Polar Bears have recently been migrating further south and mating with Grizzly bears, creating a hybrid called Grolar Bears.
ZADR TIL There is a real meth-cook named Walter White. Currently WANTED in Alabama.