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TIL Nelson Mandela lost his son to the AIDS epidemic and personally wrote checks to help fund the cost of treatment for AIDS patients

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6EleZ TIL The phrase "the customer is always right" was coined by indigent Prussian migrant who worked in the hotel industry, invented room service, became a multi-millionaire, bought an island and built a castle for his beloved wife. Wife died before completion, and he never set foot on the island again
9wJYM TIL Tom Cruise is 62 years old
6Row TIL in 2007 Boston Police Department shut down waterways, highways, and bridges after mistakenly identifing battery-powered LED placards of characters from the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force as improvised explosive devices. The devices were being used as a guerrilla marketing campaign.
epAx6 TIL The company Blizzard inadvertedly inspired the creation of the digital currency, Ethereum, by nerfing Vitalik B's World of Warcraft character.
OGyvX TIL that in South Africa, the Evolutionary theory was only introduced into the high school curriculum in 2008. Before that, the government had ignored it because it went against their beliefs (in creationism.)