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TIL There has been one person who has been completely cured of HIV/AIDS

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VBrJQ TIL the largest fish ever caught, according to the International Game Fish Association, is a great white shark weighing 2,664 pounds (1,208 kg). It was caught by Alfred Dean off the coast of Ceduna, Australia, in 1959.
oBDo7 TIL Toasters were banned in Cuba until 2008, and were only freely available from 2010
d8dA8 TIL in 1991, actor Charlie Sheen watched the 1985 film Flower of Flesh and Blood and became convinced he was watching actual homicides and contacted the FBI. The Bureau initiated an investigation but closed it after the producers showed how they did it with special effects.
nW0Y9 TIL about Queen Khina, the African warrior queen of Aurès, who fought back against the muslim conquest of North Africa
j6QNv TIL that AI models like ChatGPT don’t understand language like a real mind does. They predict the next word based on patterns in data.