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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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j64GN TIL Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school of philosophy in 335 BCE and many of the free lectures were open to the general public. He liked to walk around while holding discussions with students and it had no set curriculum or even fees for membership
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kJole TIL in the 1980s Monty Python got much of its exposure to the US through PBS, because of CBS censoring parts of "The Holy Grail" in a 1977 broadcast. This upset the comedy troupe, prompting them to withdraw the broadcast rights.
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nWL47 TIL that several crew members onboard the Challenger space shuttle survived the initial breakup. It is theorized that some were conscious until they hit the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.