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TIL that Drake wasn't officially featured in Travis Scott's 2018 hit "SICKO MODE"

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l7oEB TIL of Dr. Jolly West, who pioneered research into the use and abuse of LSD.
R70X7 TIL one of the 9/11 Hijackers Ziad Jarrah wanted to be a pilot since he was 5. His father forbid that due to his fears that his only son might die in a crash
9YAE7 TIL that the Soviet gold medalist Elena Mukhina was forced back to practice with an unhealed broken leg, which didn't give her enough power to do a flip and broke her neck on the mat making her quadriplegic for life in 1980. After the accident she said "Thank God I don't have to go to the Olympics".
R58J4 TIL Christine Maggiore founded the HIV/AIDS denialism group Alive and Well. Maggiore herself then died of aids in 2008.
VwdB TIL in 1985 Ryan White was refused re-entry to his school due to him having AIDS. 117 Parents and 50 teachers petitioned for his ban. People even cancelled their subscriptions as White was the paperboy and they believed they would be infected too.