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TIL Australia has successfully beaten AIDS and the amount of people still with it is not recorded anymore as the number is so small.

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naDb TIL… In 1977, a 23-year old graduate student stumbled upon a compound with effects similar to heroin. He made a bunch and shared it with his friends to get high, except the batch he made was contaminated with a toxic byproduct that left them all with debilitating Parkinson’s Disease within a week.
WkV5X TIL that upon return from the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through US Customs. They declared rocks, dust, and other lunar samples.
9wBrD TIL that Garry Kasparov, who was World Chess Champion for 15 years and broke the record for highest rating of all-time, took a formal IQ test in 1987 and scored 135.
VBQOB TIL that Princess Diana and Winston Churchill are from the same family
GA7RG TIL Just two weeks before the 1892 U.S. Presidential election, First Lady Caroline Harrison died. The voters were unsympathetic and Benjamin Harrison lost re-election. Their daughter Mary served out the term as First Lady.