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TIL Italian police told Amanda Knox she was HIV positive, had her make a list of everyone she’d slept with, leaked it to the press, then said the test was a “mistake.”

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N7Ld6 TIL about Xenophon Zolotas, a Greek scholar and politician, who gave two speeches in English to the IMF using nothing but Greek loanwords.
BgNlr TIL that the Italian Luciano Baietti is the world's most graduated man, he holds 15 degrees in subjects such as sociology, literature, law, philosophy, criminology and military strategy.
yVj8M TIL the famous Johnny Cash song "Boy Named Sue" was written by Shel Silverstein
4kXGa TIL an Airbus helicopter has been landed on the summit of Mt. Everest
KRNB TIL Winston Groom was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film’s net profits but never received his share due to hollywood accounting which posits that the movie lost money