Post * Bn9r — Curious Curator

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TIL that Ryan White, an HIV/AIDS spokesman in the 80s, was expelled from middle school after contracting HIV from an infected blood transfusion. 117 parents and 50 teachers campaigned for his ban, after being told that the students would catch HIV if they were in the same class as he was.

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oBXbY TIL Jeffrey Dahmer killed and ate his 17 victims in a one-bedroom apartment, with neighbors barely noticing anything besides the occasional smell of rotting meat in the hallway.

R7JRQ TIL the Dwarves in Middle Earth were created by an impatient Angel who wanted to have children of his own and teach them his crafts. Eru Ilúvatar (God) and creator of the Elves and Men was not pleased by this disobedience, but forgave his son and then adopted the Dwarves, allowing them to exist.

nW47o TIL that Russia has 10 ‘nuclear cities’ which were kept a secret from even Russias population until 1993, no one was allowed in or out yet it had full functioning populations in.

X0Dbk TIL The largest real explosion created for a film was for the James Bond film "No Time to Die." They used thousands of gallons of fuel and 300 pounds (136 kg) of explosives to set a Guinness World Record.

8AOZ TIL that on Dec. 6, 1989, an anti-feminist shot 14 people to death because they were women studying engineering