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TIL former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once called poverty “a personality defect”

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GZ9N 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.
N1Oe TIL that when a Soviet research ship went to check on sunken Soviet submarine K-219 in 1988, it found several of the submarine’s missile silo hatches had been forced open, and the missiles, along with their nuclear warheads, were gone.
pYGEe TIL Marquette, Michigan had a prison hockey team in 1953 named The Marquette Pirates who played against the Detroit Red Wings and lost 0-18
evX5 TIL that Janet Leigh, Marion Crane in Psycho, was so affected by the shower scene that she no longer took showers unless she absolutely had to. She would lock all doors and windows and leave the shower door open. She never realized until she watched the film “how vulnerable and defenseless one is”.
5rnr TIL Coca-Cola’s distribution network is being used to transport life-saving medicines to remote regions of Zambia.