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TIL that Ruth Coker Burkes cared for hundreds of people dying of AIDS, abandoned by their families because of their "sin".

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wYp7 TIL “The Janitor” character from the hit TV show Scrubs was meant to be a figment of JD’s imagination for the first two seasons in case the show needed a plot twist for a sudden cancellation.
Z8LDD TIL Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's father descended from Black Loyalists, who escaped to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War on the promise of British emancipation.
BgWad TIL Some shoe companies will sell shoes with “fuzzy bottoms/soles” (think inexpensive shoes sold at places like Walmart, Target, etc) because they can legally classify them as “slippers” changing import tariff from 37.5% to just 3% despite them clearly being sneakers
8agEa TIL: It’s prerogative, not perogative.
4knNb TIL that in the 1980s, General Motors experimented with a coal-powered car, as an attempt to diversify fuel sources during an era of oil crises.