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TIL that Isaac Asimov's son David had one of the largest collections of child pornography ever uncovered on US soil

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m8nM TIL that on Thanksgiving, Americans throw away the equivalent of FOUR Statues of Liberty (weight-wise) of turkey
4kpQR TIL George Lucas sold Lucasfilm (Star Wars) for $4 billion to Disney in 2012, but has since earned over $10 billion from the sale.
5VMpp TIL that Steven Spielberg is an uncredited executive producer of every single live-action Transformers film
wLnr6 TIL that Isaac Asimov died from complications of HIV. In 1983 got HIV from a blood transfusion during heart surgery. His doctors told him to keep it quiet. 10 Ten years later, after most of Asimov's physicians had died, Asimov's family agreed that the HIV story should be made public.
7rxAM TIL The Smallpox virus is the first and only infectious human disease to be completely eradicated; the last known case occurred in 1978. Small quantities of the virus still exist in two secure laboratories though; one in the USA and the other in Russia.