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TIL in 2013, teens Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia chased a kidnapper on bikes to save a 5-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. Boggs was later convicted of armed robbery but paroled in 2019 after showing remorse.

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6NbJ TIL that when the Pyramids at Giza were being built, there were still isolated populations of mammoths alive in Siberia.
B6Or TIL Netflix, iTunes, Hulu and Amazon have all refused to stream the 200th and 201st episode of South Park due to the appearance of Muhammad in them. They are currently unavailable to watch anywhere legally as South Park was also forced to partially censor the episodes on the DVD releases.
xxZb TIL that Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols auditioned for the band by singing along to an Alex Cooper record. Guitarist Steve Jones later said that “Rotten looked the part with his green hair, but he couldn’t sing. Then again, we couldn’t play, so it was okay.”
OGMjg TIL of Professor James Howard Snook, Olympic gold medalist, veterinary pioneer, who was executed for bludgeoning his 24 year old lover with a hammer.
O0X7 TIL that a person infected with HIV came from Haiti to America around 1969. Today, almost everybody with HIV in Europe, America, Japan and Australia can have their virus traced back to that same individual.