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TIL Christine Maggiore founded the HIV/AIDS denialism group Alive and Well. Maggiore herself then died of aids in 2008.

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rNJ84 TIL that from 1170 to 1512, "The Neck Verse" could save one from punishment for almost any crime in England. Literate accusees, or criminals who had simply memorised Psalm 51:3, would recite it to claim the "Benefit of Clergy", meaning they would be tried by the much more lenient church courts.
PYZDJ TIL There is an autochthonous, more than three centuries old, population of black Africans in certain pockets of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
BrmEL TIL about Yoshie Shiratori, who broke out of prison four times, and most famously was the only person in history to break out of Abishiri prison in Hokkaido, Japan.
xrnb TIL that many Jehova’s Witnesses consider Smurfs to be demons and that toys and pictures of Smurfs will come alive to harass families and bite their children at night.
vPK1j TIL Canadians live ~4 years longer than Americans on average