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TIL that the People’s Temple Basketball team were among the only Survivors of the Jonestown Mass suicide because they were playing at a basketball tournament in Georgetown.

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6NkY TIL A group of female prostitues in Nairobi have become resistant to AIDS
dDErE TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once Vice President of the United States, died at age 70 of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his 25 year old assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: "Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going".
6E4j7 TIL the origins of Chemotherapy come from mustard gas during WWII when scientists realized that it damaged DNA and decreased the formation of blood cells by the bone marrow. They wondered if similar compounds would have a similar effect on cancer cell proliferation. And so Chemo was born.
KOrEw TIL The World Mosquito Project scientists cultivate and release mosquitoes infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia. The bacterium is passed down to future generations. The bacterium appears to block mosquitos from transmitting arboviruses (dengue, chikungunya & yellow fever) & Zika
nWkpY TIL In 1982, Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name "Thagomizer" (The four spikes at the end of the tail on a Stegosarus Dinosaur) as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.