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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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7vlL TIL a man survived Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele removing his kidney without anesthesia and survived a gas chamber as he was the 201st person in line for a chamber of 200 people.
KmEa TIL because Louis X of France died before his son was born, King John I of France is the only ruler of France to be king for his whole life. He only lived for 5 days.
4XBDa TIL the whitewashed village of Juzcar, Spain used 4,000 liters of paint to turn the entire village blue for the release of Smurfs (2011). After the movie had been released, residents voted to keep it blue as it had helped increase tourism.
VwB TIL there is an elephant named Tarra who lost her best friend, a dog named Bella, to a band of coyotes. Finding the body, she moved her friend more than a mile from the scene, taking her back home.
KP7B TIL of the mellified man, who, entering old age, would choose to consume nothing but honey until he died; and then would be entombed in honey for a century plus before being unmasked and eaten for health benefits.