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TIL scientists have been able to trace the start of HIV/AIDS to King Leopold’s Belgian Congo, originating as far back as 1909. The first person to be infected probably got the virus in the 1920s

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mdOR TIL there is a bar in Brooklyn where the legal drinking age is 25 years old, because “Young people are annoying”
LEg0 TIL rats cant vomit, at all.
Z8rko TIL about the mysterious worldwide epidemic of Encephalitis lethargica. The disease attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless. Between 1915 and 1926, 500,000 dead or incapacitated from it. It disappeared as mysteriously as it came in to the world.
J16lQ TIL about the concept in mesoamerican folk religion called Nagual. It is a human being that can shapeshift into their tonal(animals that mesoamericans believe have connection to a certain person) animal counterparts.
dQlK TIL Historians believe Sacagawea died in 1812 at 24…or 1884 at 94. They can’t decide.