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TIL the conspiracy theory that US government created AIDS was part of Soviet propaganda to distract attention from its biological warfare program.

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1gPO TIL Fraser Island, Australia, is the largest Island to be entirely made out of sand.
j67jv TIL butterflies remember being caterpillars Studies suggest they retain some memories even after liquefying themselves during metamorphosis.
RwR4 TIL that the craft brewery Dogfish Head has introduced a line called “Ancient Ales,” made from historic recipes, some of which that haven’t been brewed in thousands of years.
XwY6 TIL that in North Korea, it’s the year 104
BrEmL TIL that in 2001 Kenny Waters, a Massachusetts man who was wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for murder, was finally freed after his high-school drop-out sister went to law school to prove his innocence. However, 6 months after his release, he died in a freak accident.