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TIL in 1985 Ryan White was refused re-entry to his school due to him having AIDS. 117 Parents and 50 teachers petitioned for his ban. People even cancelled their subscriptions as White was the paperboy and they believed they would be infected too.

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aweLZ TIL gold replica of an olive branch, the traditional symbol of peace, which was left on the Moon's surface by Apollo 11 crewmembers. The gesture represented a fresh wish for peace for all mankind.
OGkJ4 TIL that Pink Floyd’s The Wall is designed as an endless loop. The final track, “Outside the Wall,” ends with “Isn’t this where...”, and the album starts with “... we came in?” continuing the last song’s melody, highlighting the cyclical theme of Water’s concept.
dx9K TIL The residence of Saranac Lake New York said no to a Walmart in their town and instead, opened a community owned store.
LQvdm TIL As a teenager Bernhard Riemann finished all 900 pages in Legendre's book on the Theory of Numbers in six days. Riemann later challenged what the dimension of real space was and what geometry described real space, ideas too far ahead of its time to be appreciated by most scientists of that time
K1M6 TIL that Singapore Airlines flight 21 which had the longest non-stop flight (18 hours), from Singapore to New Jersey, had special lockers on the plane to store corpses if people died en route since the flight path over the Pacific Ocean and North Pole meant the plane couldn’t land if someone died.