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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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neKvo TIL about Rédoine Faïd, France's most wanted criminal in 2013. A gangster and serial jailbreaker, one of his prison escapes involved hijacking a helicopter with the help of three armed accomplices.
VnV8 TIL The Sami are Norway’s indigenous people.Their culture is over 11,000 years old. They live in tents called (lavvo) and follow the reindeer herds around for all their sustenance. Reindeer herding is central to Sami culture providing meat, fur and reindeer sledding is their transportation..
KYmyB TIL that the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora was the most powerful eruption in human history, 4 to 10 times more powerful than the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.
b9aDQ TIL in 1981 President Ronald Reagan fired the entire air traffic controllers union, invoking a law that stated government employees that engaged in a strike forfeited their jobs.
5OOk TIL - An apparently mentally ill Roman Catholic priest has regularly interrupted sporting events by running onto the track with signs about the impending apocalypse. He may have cost a Brazilian runner his Olympic Gold Medal. He was finally defrocked in 2005.