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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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5nRp TIL Bolivia’s largest prison has a society within itself and no guards inside the walls. Inmates elect their own leaders, make their own laws, get jobs to pay for their cell’s rent, and can even live with their families.
VZY4 TIL only 3 films have swept the “Big Five” Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
m1Ppv TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar
7rlwb TIL there was a practice called Posthumous Execution where a dead body was mutilated as punishment. It was performed to show that even in death, one cannot escape justice. Eg. Vlad the Impaler was beheaded following his assassination, Rasputin was exhumed from the ground and burned with gasoline.
PYg5Z TIL the myth that birds can't eat rice is so popular that it killed the wedding tradition