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TIL it wasn't a single drug discovery that stopped people from dying of AIDS in the 1990s but the discovery that combining several drugs would each affect a different aspect of HIV and together force the virus into undetectable remission, called the "AIDS cocktail"

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gGl9 TIL of a study measuring whether the tiredness/hunger of a judge affected the prospects of getting parole. At the beginning of a session, a prisoner had a 65% chance of being parolled, the authors found. This declined to almost zero by the end of a session, and leaped back to 65% after a break.
9447 TIL people built entire houses just to piss their neighbours off.
kJL51 TIL Last Christmas's royalties all go to charity
91nM TIL A man in China was dumped by his girlfriend because he was too poor to take her to the movies. Six years later, he booked four IMAX theaters in Beijing for one night and gave away all the tickets for free to prove how rich he is now and to show her what she was missing.
YaMP TIL Google doesn’t use lawnmowers to cut its grass. Google rents 200 goats to chow down on their grass for roughly a week.