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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.

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N7e58 TIL Despite the term 'blood donation', the blood market is actually a multi billion dollar industry and blood given for free by donors is then sold on the open market for profit for as much as $600 per pint, a cost passed down to patients.
16Bdd TIL about the Struwwelpeter, a 19th Century children's book in Germany showing moral lessons with disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. One of the stories tell about a boy who doesn't stop sucking his thumbs until a tailor appears out of nowhere and cuts off his fingers.
Z8Moo TIL a woman in china lured a 6 year old boy into a field to completely remove his eyes via gouging with an unknown implement.Police suspected cornea harvesting but this was quickly ruled out when the eyes were discovered at the scene, albeit no longer attached to his body, completely intact.
4yZ5 TIL that whenever a cat slowly closes its eyes and opens them again or winks at you, that means they trust you and recognize you as a friend.
VGbZ TIL Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan resistance leader, who in April 2001 warned the European Parliament about a large-scale terrorist attack on U.S. soil being imminent. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001, 2 days before the 9/11 attacks.