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TIL of a recently discovered aggressive strain of HIV that progresses to AIDS in 3 years

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DQaXg TIL China, virtually closed to Americans for over a decade, opened its doors to a Danish author from National Geographic for a lengthy tour conducted by communist officials in 1964
OG804 TIL 51-year-old electrician Mike McDermott broke the odds of 1 in 283 billion by winning the lotto TWICE in one year, doing it both times using the same numbers!
XQm6 TIL that during the Gulf War when American forces were faced with extensive trenches of Iraqi soldiers they “opted to use anti-mine plows mounted on tanks and combat earthmovers to simply plow over and bury alive the defending Iraqi soldiers.”
nWppB TIL Gordon Ramsay robbed the restaurant that he was working in and framed his mentor Marco Pierre White so that they wouldn’t hire him to replace Ramsay.
WedA TIL that the Military at one time invented the M65 - The Recoiless Nuclear Rifle. It fired nuclear rockets.