› added 5 years ago

87

TIL that Timothy Ray Brown is considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. Brown had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to treat leukaemia. His transplant came from someone with a natural genetic resistance to HIV. He was cured of HIV but scientists don’t fully understand why.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

5GYP TIL that a woman rented a limousine and drove up to a Burlington Coat Factory and said she won the lottery and would pay for all purchases. A mob formed. When she revealed she was lying and ran off, the mob looted the store!
XEApE TIL Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was financed by Quaker Oats to promote their new Wonka Bar.
6EayY TIL that historically, polio was not widely fatal. 72% of all infections were asymptomatic; 24% resulted in mild illness; 1-5% resulted in more serious but short-term symptoms. But polio was still feared, due to the <1% of cases that led to permanent paralysis and death in a further 5-30% of them.
Ea60 TIL the South Park parody of Pokemon, “Chinpokomon” is a play on the Japanese word “Chinpoko” which means penis.
1aDpO TIL Tom Hanks Steve Martin, and Martin Short have their colonoscopies done together and even ride in the same car...