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TIL Chicago sets its rail tracks on fire to prevent icing

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7LXX TIL of Brryan Jackson. He was purposely injected with HIV-tainted blood when he was 11 months old, by his own father. He developed AIDS by the age of 5 and death seemed certain. Today, he is over 20 years old and the virus has been undetectable in his blood for over five years.
xVwPB TIL of a bad ass female Pirate. Zheng Yi Sao Commanded 400 ships, 60,000 Pirates, and fought the East India Trading Company. She raided with the Black Flag Fleet Numerous villages, settlements, and towns fell victim to the rampaging pirates.
1MQD TIL Russia didn’t consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously classified as a soft drink.
KRB4 TIL the use of sunscreen can cause coral bleaching; the main component of sunscreen, titanium dioxide, forms hydrogen peroxide, OH- and superoxides (O2-) in water, all of which contribute to coral bleaching. 10% of bleached coral is estimated to have been caused by sunscreen alone.
N7OAE Today I learned that Grover Cleveland became the first sitting president to get married. He married a woman 27 years younger than him, Frances Folsom, whom he had literally known since her birth. After Folsom's father died when she was 11, Cleveland became her legal guardian.