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TIL of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, the third most lethal in human history with 44 million lives claimed as of 2025. Though the disease is manageable with modern medicine and treated infected people have normal life expectancies, the late 20th century life expectancy after the diagnosis was just 18 months

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8Vb TIL that Mansa Musa, Emperor of the Malian Empire, gave away so much gold to the poor that he devalued the currency and devastated the economy of the Middle East and North Africa for years
ADkQo TIL in the 1920s, a man falsely claiming to be a doctor implanted goat testicles into people across the US as a cure for all diseases. He was condemned by the AMA and media, but ran for governor of Kansas in 1930, narrowly losing after thousands of votes for him were questionably disqualified.
XE5Pr TIL Roughly 70 percent of Sicilian businesses pay protection money to the Mafia.
j6LaE TIL: Jennifer Jason Leigh's Father was Vic Morrow, who was accidentally killed while filming The Twilight Zone Movie.
D1rRr TIL in 2017, Apple announced plans to demolish a historic Aboriginal art gallery to make way for one of their stores in Melbourne. After intense backlash from Australians, authorities rejected the plan.