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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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r7Re TIL of “Montreal’s Night of Terror”, a sort of real-life Purge with bank robberies and looting, as the Montreal police went on a 16 hour strike.
loJe1 TIL Frederick the Great of Prussia was gay, and it led up to point that his father got his lover beheaded and made him watch whole execution. Reasoning was that he was effeminate and not manly, irony is that he became one of greatest generals of all time.
Egkmw TIL that mountain lions, cougars, panthers, and pumas are all the same animal
W7dP9 TIL That Dave Seville (Real Name Ross Bagdasarian) Of Alvin And The Chipmunks Fame Played The Composer In Rear Window (1954)
v1pKr TIL that The Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest by over 1000 years, is also the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.