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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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pj9e TIL Chicago was raised over 4 ft with screw jacks in the 19th century in order to install the first sewer system in the US.
DrPJ TIL A guy named Ole Worm found evidence that “lemmings were rodents and not, as some thought, spontaneously generated by the air.”
wLGE6 TIL in 2012, a man attempted to pay his traffic ticket with 137 origami dollar bills shaped as pigs, inside of 2 doughnut boxes. The clerk called in police, who required him to unfold every single one to pay his ticket. The event was regarded by the ticketed man as, "The Great Dollar Pig Massacre.".
epDvg TIL almonds, cashew, walnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts, and brazil nuts are not true nuts
45ka TIL Walk Off the Earth singer Sarah Blackwood was kicked off a United Airlines flight over her crying son