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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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16Qj8 TIL that Celine Dion represented Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision Contest and won, even through she was a French-Canadian.
mx0wy TIL sexually-transmitted infections, STIs, may have driven ancient humans to monogamy from polygamy
neNQW TIL of Dmitry Shparo, who against the USSR's will, skied to the North Pole twice in freezing weather and darkness. He also had a Ph.D. in Mathematics, skied across the Bering Strait, and founded an organization that helps disabled athletes go on adventures.
R5g1j TIL that in 1987 Nevada created an unpopulated county, Bullfrog County, to try to dissuade the US government from building a nuclear waste site there. Taxes were set as high as possible and all officials were appointed by the Nevada government.
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