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TIL a man was cured of HIV by receiving a bone marrow transplant from someone with an immunity.

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o8RK TIL America has very likely already had a gay president. James Buchanan was unmarried, lived with a man he called his companion, and wrote in his diary about wooing other men.
yVWAV TIL People produce endocannabinoids – similar to compounds found in marijuana – that are critical to many bodily functions such as learning and memory, emotional processing, sleep, temperature control, pain control, inflammatory and immune responses, and eating.
N7gL6 Researchers in Sweden have uncovered evidence of a behaviour never seen before in ancient hunter-gatherers: the mounting of decapitated heads onto stakes. The grim discovery challenges our understanding of European Mesolithic culture and how these early humans handled their dead.
8aO0L TIL Kynodesme was common in ancient greece.
l7JBa TIL London's Black Cabs must have sufficient headroom for a 5ft 8in-tall man (1.7m) to sit in the rear seat wearing a top hat.