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TIL Captain Planet was the first cartoon to deal with AIDS. The episode featured a villain who brainwashed the community making them think Aids could be passed by casual contact, making the whole town hate a young man infected by HIV- AIDS voiced by Neil Patrick Harris.

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BgBwW TIL that whales and sturgeon found in the United Kingdom are automatically designated as the personal property of the monarch.
l7op1 TIL Arctic foxes strongly prefer to dive in a north-easterly direction. They are more likely to make a kill if they jumped along the invisible axis, especially when their prey was hidden by snow. If they pounced to the north-east, they killed on 73% of jumps compared with 18% in other directions .
OKZ6 TIL Lay’s WOW chips caused anal leakage in some customers; and Lays were required to put Warnings on their labels because of this.
eVE6 TIL there was a man named Joseph Bolitho Johns who escaped Australian prison so many times, they built a special cell just for him. He escaped that as well.
OGkP6 TIL that the assassination of President WilliamMcKinley by Leon Czolgosz in 1901 led to the formation of modern-day Secret Service and also the FBI. In addition, after he was executed by electric chair a month after his trial Czolgosz's coffin was covered in acid so his body would dissolve.