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TIL in 1988 NASCAR used falsified drug tests to keep a driver with AIDS (Tim Richmond) from driving.

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8aAOa TIL that Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor in many of the Nuremberg Trials, also wished to prosecute American pilots who had bombed North Vietnam, believing they were also guilty of war crimes.
ne7Z9 TIL that Switzerland is so committed to neutrality, it didn't even join the United Nations until 2002
xY1w Today I learned that before getting her own show, Oprah Winfrey co-hosted a morning talk show where she could only speak when her male costar tapped her on her leg.
aWmb TIL that the Wu-Tang Clan released a secret album, of which they only made one copy. It is cased in silver and nickel and sits in a vault in Morocco. It runs $5 million.
1aV7r TIL an army's "infantry" is so named because it originally denoted soldiers who were too young or inexperienced to be entrusted with a horse and be part of the cavalry.