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TIL Pharmacologist and biochemist Gertrude Belle Elion helped develop drugs for treating leukemia, malaria, herpes, and AIDS. She shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine despite never having completed her PhD.

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6EVoW TIL the Royal Navy admitted their ships would be empty if they discharged "all the men with homosexual experience". Investigations in the 1960s reveal hundreds of British naval officers were sexually involved with other men, so for national security, discreet homosexuality was mostly ignored.
neVV9 TIL there is a statue of a blue horse with glowing laser eyes in front of the Denver International Airport nicknamed bluecifer. This statue killed his creator Luis Jiménez when a section fell on him.
Oo95R TIL that the NFL theme song by Scott Schreer is actually a combination of two of the tracks he made in two days with the inspiration "Batman on steroids"
v1KJj TIL that producers feared that the young actors involved would become unrecognizable, so producers filmed the final scene for How I Met Your Mother and kept it under wraps for 8 years.
0wPZp TIL the HIV epidemic was ignored as a 'gay disease' in the USA until a handful of straight people with the disease received national attention. One of them, a kid named Ryan White, refused the label of "innocent victim" as he worried it implied that gay HIV patients were somehow "guilty."