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TIL that Isaac Asimov died of AIDS. He contracted HIV during a blood transfusion but it was kept secret until after a decade of his passing in the early '90s because of the hostility of the general public to the disease.

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obaR TIL that Eugene Debs ran for the presidency in 1920 while in prison and received more than 900,000 votes
0we7M TIL both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg executive produced The Land Before Time.
awkkM TIL that Vesna Vulović, a former flight attendant, holds the world record for surviving the longest free fall without a parachute (10.1 kilometers). Following the plane crash (of which she was the sole survivor), she was willing to resume working flights, however the airline gave her a desk job.
wLdeP TIL that the toy manufacturer Toy Biz successfully argued in court that their X-Men action figures were not based on humans, but mutants, meaning that they would not be eligible for a tariff on human-based toys
loXKG TIL that LSD leaves the bloodstream within a few hours, but essentially chains itself to brain receptors causing a long-lasting trip of up to 24 hours. Your high only wears off when enough of the LSD molecules "escape" from the locked receptor in your brain.