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TIL Belize is a Commonwealth state like Canada!
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TIL a woman was diagnosed HIV+, despite her husband and exes all testing HIV-. Convinced her spouse(a doctor) infected her via a “vitamin shot”, she had detectives examine his clinic’s records. 1 HIV+ blood sample was missing. That patient’s HIV strain was ~identical to hers, convicting the husband.
8aWPV
TIL it was legal in Missouri to kill Mormons on sight until 1976
5YybB
TIL about Katharine McCormick a biologist who contributed the majority of funding for the development of the oral contraceptive pill who fearing the hereditary of her husband’s Schizophrenia vowed never to have children and developed a staunch belief in the value of contraception.
vPYBD
TIL that in the 1970 film Waterloo, to recreate the battle sequences, production hired 17,000 members of the Soviet Army and trained them in 1815 battle formations.
wnxJ
TIL that despite its small size (41,543 sq. km, 134th in the world) and high population density (406 per sq. km, 24th in the world), the Netherlands is the number two exporter of food and agricultural products in the entire world, after only the United States.