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TIL an early AIDS victim was dubbed “Patient O” but a typo changed this to “Patient Zero” and he has since been blamed as the origin of the virus in the USA.

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nWGwB TIL while filming Metropolis (1927) they would often end up with more children in the evening than in the morning. Coming from the poorest areas of Berlin, the children would sneak onto set or climb over the fence to experience the warm rooms, games, toys, cocoa, cake, and regular meals
YpvJG TIL Tupac Shakur’s stepfather was involved in the 1981 Brinks armored car heist
QJvkk Today I learned there's a term for diarrhea after high intensity running "Runners Trots"
KOOW4 TIL that the official definition of 1 second is based on a quantum mechanical phenomenon, namely "the duration of 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Caesium 133 atom's outermost electron"
PYrQg TIL a fan drove three hours to deliver rapper, Boozie Badazz, a much needed dosage of insulin. She refused to accept payment and instead asked for just a photo. On her way home she stopped at a store, bought a scratch off ticket, and won $10,000.