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TIL that 70 to 80% of hemophiliacs being treated with blood products prior to 1985 became infected with HIV

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WDbX TIL Charles Lindbergh, the first solo New York-Paris flight guy, kept 3 separate, secret families in Europe.
GYQAJ TIL Maria Daume, the first female marine to go through the traditional training process, was born in a Siberian prison and orphaned at age 2.
MeNpm TIL Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger from Winnie The Pooh, had medical training and became the first person to build and patent a mechanical artifical heart.
OGxKX TIL of the Dead Internet Theory which states that we are being manipulated by bots
LQgGV TIL about Giulia Tofana, who helped over 600 women murder their husbands over a 50yr period during the 17th century Italian Renaissance. Her poisonous creation, called Aqua Tofana, was thought to have been laced with arsenic, lead, and belladonna and was sold mixed into cosmetics.