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TIL starving to death can be ‘peaceful’ and 'euphoric’

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ppyZ TIL Lego has actual “master builders” (aka Certified Professionals). There are only 13 of them and they aren’t accepting any further candidates.
X4d8 TIL you cannot get HIV from a mosquito or any other insect. Mosquitoes don’t inject the blood from their last meal when they bite. Also, they don’t hop from host to host. After a meal, they go rest and digest. And HIV is destroyed by the insect’s stomach.
neEEW TIL The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971.
nW8NW TIL, at first, Andrew Johnson wanted the Confederate leadership to be tried for treason, but Ulysses S. Grant threatened to resign and Johnson backed down.
GAxV5 TIL Jimmy Stewart earned 50% of the profits ($600K) for the movie Winchester '73 (1950). This is acknowledged as the first confirmed time in the sound era that a film actor received some of the movie's receipts as compensation, a practice now called "points".