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TIL Baseball superstar Tim Raines slid head-first while stealing to avoid breaking a vial of cocaine in his back pocket

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16p0D TIL "Bookazines", usually presented as single-topic, in-depth magazines often marketed to consumers as collectors’ items, saw newsstand revenues grow by millions in 2020. Examples are issues on BTS from Time and a Life special on the Beatles
n0ad TIL in 1973 in NY, a man was arrested for murder. He revealed to his lawyers where 2 other bodies (of at that time missing) teens were buried. They withheld the information from police & the families. Vilified at the time, they’re now considered heroes for upholding attorney/client privilege.
Xj0P TIL Steve Crohn was one of the first studied cases of HIV immunity. His Immunity was due to a mutation in the CCR5 delta-5 receptor of CD4-t*cells, this prevented the virus from “entering” the immune cell. He committed suicide at the age of 66 after most of his friends died from the disease.
wExo TIL That the minting of the U.S. half-penny was discontinued in 1857 because it was viewed as having too insignificant purchasing power and wasteful to continue minting. Adjusted for inflation it would be worth more than the penny, nickel, and dime today.
5P9P TIL that Amtrak has been losing money for 43 straight years