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TIL In the late 1980s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with the AIDS virus so they could live in a sanitarium and be free from constant police-state harassment.

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QJade TIL about the oldest surviving song. 3400 years old, the Hurrian Hymn was discovered in Syria, in a clay tablet with Cuneiform text. It was dedicated to the goddess of the orchards Nikkal.
R5aD6 TIL the plant Oenanthe crocata was purportedly used in the ritual killing of criminals and the elderly in ancient Sardinia. Subjects were intoxicated with the herb and then dropped from a height or beaten to death.
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16BMP TIL Podocytoma, Lærum's tumour, a tumour involving Podocyte cells of the kidney is arguably the World's rarest disease. So far not a single case of this theoretical disease has yet been diagnosed (translation in comments)