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TIL that Henry Heimlich, founder of the Heimlich maneuver, purposely infected Africans and Chinese with MALARIA because he thought it would cure them of HIV/AIDS. He still believes this to to be true.

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KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother
njjW TIL it has been 40 years to the day since a human being has walked on the Moon, the last time being on December 13, 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission.
0ddNM TIL that in 1976, George Washington was posthumously appointed to the grade of 'General of the Armies of the United States,' the highest rank possible, to ensure that he could never be outranked.
d8EO8 TIL 15 years after having been shot and left for dead during a forced march to a concentration camp, physicist Bruno Touschek initiated and drove the development of AdA -- the world's first antimatter storage ring.
Yp8bA Today I Learned that TMZ gets its name from the 'Thirty Mile Zone' around Hollywood which is considered 'local' and is all about union rules and money.