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TIL A group of female prostitues in Nairobi have become resistant to AIDS

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N7Py6 TIL Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas were refused government aid unless they pledged to never to boycott Israel.
nZvr TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour and dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to help find a stranded yacht off the Australian coast. It took the passengers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was activated to locate the yacht.
VMvZ4 TIL one of the founders of The Church of Jediism was removed from a Tesco supermarket in North Wales for refusing to remove his hood on a religious basis. The owner justified Jones's ejection by saying, "Jedis are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods."
9wXd7 TIL that Richard Bayley, a surgeon working in the New York Hospital, had his laboratory and cadavers destroyed in the 1788 Doctor's Riot after accusations of graverobbing for anatomical specimens. Upon his death Richard Bayley chose to be buried.
R57Rl TIL From 1927 to 1952, Tobacco Companies used pictures of doctors in their advertising and used slogans claiming that doctors endorsed their brand.