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TIL LabCorp owns a fleet of planes and has the call sign SKYLAB

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GVp5 TIL From 1998-2010, hedge funds earned $379 billion in fees, while the investors in them earned $70 billion in gains.
0w7e5 TIL In Italy they can ask you a certification of "being alive". People can self-certificate of being alive. Death can't be self-certificated, though.
4XYeo TIL Betty white's character, Rose Nyland, on The Golden Girls, had a brush with HIV. The show, titled “72 Hours,” centered on Rose after she learns that a blood transfusion she received may have exposed her to HIV. The message of the show was that HIV and AIDS had the potential to affect anyone.
Lkag0 TIL UFC Champion Charles Oliveira who was born in a poor family in a favela in Brazil, was diagnosed with a disease at age 7 and was told he would never walk again. His mother responded "we don't accept that." His mom then sold snacks and discarded cardboard on the streets to help fund his training
6EPlY TIL that a film advocating the flat-Earth theory received the Russia's highest annual television award in 2017 in the nomination "best educational program"