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TIL that rock band Foo Fighters provided music, appear in, and gave tacit support for the 2004 film "The Other Side of AIDS." The pseudoscientific documentary tries to argue that HIV does not cause AIDS.

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9bM TIL Intel spilled 1.4 tons of carbon tetrachloride in Rio Rancho, New Mexico in 2003. Deceased dogs in the area were found to have high levels of toluene, hexane, ethylbenzene, and xylene isomers in their lungs. Intel later lied and reported no release of carbon tetrachloride for all of 2003.
ykOv TIL a gin & tonic will glow under a black light because tonic contains quinines , which are black light reactive.
gMwl8 TIL The NES game 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' included a real phone number that players could call and hear a recording of Jessica Rabbit offering hints. The phone line was discontinued by 1990 and reassigned to a sex hotline some time before 2010. The original recording has since been lost.
j6XjX TIL that telegraph operators fell in love, got married, and even had sexual encounters over the telegraph, much in the same way people do today through messaging and social networks
vDbx TIL 4 Americans have the same amount of wealth as 40% Americans combined.