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TIL in 2008 Foo Fighters held a Charity concert for the HIV-denialist group "Alive&Well". In private footage Grohl is seen with founder of the organization Christine Maggiore and Shiflett speaking in support of the Organization. Maggiore died in 2008 of suspected AIDS-related pneumonia.

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D1ZAV TIL of Fatal insomnia disease. A genetic mutation that 40 families are known to carry worldwide and can be random. When it starts you die within months to 1 year depending when you stop sleeping altogether. Life expectancy is 7 months to 6 years.
YVZ7 TIL: When men and women work a 4-39hr a week job, women out-earn men (table 5, page 27).
xVZQ0 TIL that despite being politically and culturally associated with Europe for a millennium, Greenland is geographically located in North America.
Z1rp TIL that a doctored photo of an American baby was falsely circulated as Hitler’s baby photo by the international press in the 1930s. This prompted Nazi authorities to release a real baby photo to prove that Hitler was in fact a cute baby.
7rJ4r TIL actress Anne Ramsey - better known as Mama Fratelli in "The Goonies" and Mrs. Lift in "Throw Momma From The Train" - had a famously unique speech slur left over after surgery from esophageal cancer in 1984. That cancer would later return in 1988, and was the ultimate cause of her passing