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TIL: A study found that Charlie Sheen’s HIV-positive disclosure in 2014 led to 8225 more sales than expected of in-home HIV tests, surpassing World AIDS Day by a factor of about 7, concluding that a “Charlie Sheen effect” represents an important opportunity for a public health response.

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KjK6 TIL in June 1979, there was a record in the billboard top 100 called Ready N steady by D.A. This record is so rare to find that people are questioning it’s existence. This is called a case of “phantom recording”
4XWba TIL of Amsterdam Time, UTC +00:20 and used from 1909 until the Nazis invaded in 1940. That made the Netherlands 20 minutes ahead of London. The reason for this offset was that it was centered on the mean solar time of the tower of the Westerkerk Church in Amsterdam and not on Greenwich Mean Time.
ep50g TIL after Post Malone found out that other patrons at the Houston bar he was in had covered his check, he asked the waitress to charge him for anything so he could leave a tip. The waitress then rang him up for a $1 bill, and in return, he tipped her $20,000, leaving a total of $20,001.
kJZ7m TIL that Michael Böllner the German actor who played Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, became a tax accountant and had no idea how popular the movie was in America until he was invited to a fan convention decades later.
6EmYJ TIL Bubbly Creek is the nickname given to the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River. The creek derives its name from the gases bubbling out of the riverbed from the decomposition of blood and entrails dumped into the river in the early 20th century by the local meatpacking businesses