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TIL that princess diana shook hands with a man who had aids that helped in removing the stigma around the disease.

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xVxdD TIL Siegfried and Roy were fired from their first gig together for bringing a live cheetah on a cruise ship.
VKJ0 TIL in Orlando Florida, heavily-armed SWAT teams raided nine barbershops and arrested 34 people for barbering without a license
xNk7 TIL that, when the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hideki Tojo, was found with a self inflicted gunshot wound in his chest, he was pumped full of American blood, allowed to recover, and then later hanged for his war crimes.
6946Z TIL J. Cole, the rapper, graduated high school with a 4.2 GPA! He then accepted a scholarship to St. Johns University. While in college, he served as the president of a pan-African student coalition. And guess what? He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in communication and business!
7rjNx TIL that the Ancient Egyptian text Debate Between a Man and His Soul is about a man deeply unhappy with life without the will to continue to live, saying one cannot find friends anymore and that nobody is good anymore. It is considered the oldest text on depression. It ends on a positive note.