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TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks

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GY8NE TIL in 1988, musician Philly Lutaaya became the first prominent Ugandan to openly declare he was HIV positive. Many received his declaration with skepticism, the press claiming it was just a publicity stunt to promote sales of his records. He is now considered a national hero for his AIDS activism.
0kxy TIL after a botched execution by lethal injection in which the condemned man writhed in pain for over 30 minutes the warden stated that the condemmed man was actually just “stretching to see a clock in the death chamber”
yMdp TIL that there is no freight rail crossing of the Hudson River south of Albany, so any train travelling south from NYC must take a 280-mile detour or float across on barges
VBwnk TIL that it took a month for Ernő Rubik to solve a wooden block prototype of the Rubik's Cube
Lkv19 TIL Guinness brewery signed a 9000 year lease on their brewery