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TIL that The Fifth Element remains the most financially successful French film of all time.

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Y7yL7 TIL about Ryan White, a 13-year-old boy, got AIDS from a blood donor in 1984, 117 parents signed a petition to ban him from returning to school. An auction was held to keep him out, a newspaper supporting him got death threats, and his family left town when a gun was fired through their window.
bj67 TIL Your immune system destroys at least one cell every day that would have become cancer if it lived
Egy9X TIL that adults have 206 bones, while babies start out with around 305. Bones fuse together as we grow, which is why we end up with fewer bones than we had at birth, with a quarter of our bones being in our feet.