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TIL that Christine Maggiore, founder of the HIV/AIDS denialist group Alive and Well, died of AIDS in 2008.

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8eNPP TIL Fry's Chocolate Cream Bar is the first mass-produced chocolate bar and the world's oldest chocolate bar brand
awoEZ Today I learned that Stanford did a study on how memes and other internet ideas spread.
QNJG6 TIL of the documentary: Born Rich, made by Jamie Johnson (great-grandson to the founder of Johnson & Johnson) about the experiences of those who were born into the ultra-wealthy. For producing and releasing the film, Jamie was deemed by his peers to be a "traitor to his class".
NZkJ TIL Rin-Tin-Tin, the canine movie star of the 1920s, was so popular that he supposedly got the most votes for Best Actor at the first ever Academy Awards. The Academy chose a human instead of Rin-Tin-Tin because they wanted the show to be taken seriously.
BmDe TIL that a parasite, Toxoplasma Gondii, can change rodent behaviour by reducing their ability to sense feline predators making them easy prey. The parasite can then pass from rodent to cat and then cat to human.