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TIL That there is a type fungi inside the Chernobyl reactors that thrives on radiation

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xJKD TIL Christine Maggiore was an activist with HIV who said it didn’t cause AIDS. She convinced thousands of people not to test for AIDS and to have unprotected sex. When she got pregnant she didn’t use medication to prevent the risk of transmission; her daughter died at age 3. Maggiore died of AIDS.
B4Zd TIL Ghost Busters Dan Aykroyd is slightly autistic. His obsession with the police and ghost hunters was the inspiration for Ghost Busters. He was diagnosed with autism back in the 1980s when his wife asked him to get it checked out. He also had Tourette’s as a kid, but overcame it with therapy.
xal0 TIL if you have no debts and $10 in your pocket, you have more wealth than 25% of Americans
v1kb7 TIL Chiang Wei-Kuo, the son of Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek, was a Wehrmacht soldier, despite the fact that Japan was allied with Germany, and fighting against China.
p8wMp TIL that Kanye West first started making beats when trying to make a Mario style game about a giant penis