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TIL that the Nigerian version of Sesame Street, Sesame Square, stars a HIV-positive muppet to help remove the stigma of being HIV-positive.

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wJy7 TIL In the late 1970’s McDonald’s had to redesign its coffee spoons because they were deemed “drug paraphernalia,” with cocaine users and dealers commonly using the “McSpoon” to dole out specific measurements.
jxva TIL that Blizzard sued a woman running her own private WoW server, in which she sold items through PayPal, for $88,594,539.00 and won.
O1eg TIL: The last surviving eyewitness of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination was a man named Samuel J. Seymour who lived until April 12, 1956 at the age of 96. In February 1956, Seymour appeared on the TV game show I’ve Got a Secret, where he described the assassination in detail.
nJbB TIL that when Anne Richards was running for Governor of Texas in 1991 her opponent Clayton Williams shot himself in the foot (figuratively) by stating “ Rape is like bad weather…if it’s inevitable lay back, relax and enjoy it..”
GYJ75 TIL of the Bone Wars. In the late 1800s, two rival paleontologists sought to disgrace each other, resorting to bribery, theft, attempts to cut off funding, and destruction of bones. Both paleontologists were ruined financially, but their efforts led to the discovery of 136 new species of dinosaurs.