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TIL that the Liverpool–Manchester Railway, the world’s first "inter-city" line, opened on 15 September 1830. It was fully steam-powered, double-tracked, signalled and timetabled.

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7LXX TIL of Brryan Jackson. He was purposely injected with HIV-tainted blood when he was 11 months old, by his own father. He developed AIDS by the age of 5 and death seemed certain. Today, he is over 20 years old and the virus has been undetectable in his blood for over five years.
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