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TIL the actor in the 1980 movie Airplane! that played the outlandish, flamboyant air traffic controller…was actually one of the first actors to publicly suffer from HIV and die as a result of AIDS in 1986 at age 38.

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XEDXQ TIL that the oldest non-human primate of all time is Cheeta the Chimp, who lived to be 80 years. Becoming famous as one of Tarzan's sidekicks in the 1930s-1960s, Cheeta went on to live a happy life as an Ambassador, also playing piano and painting.
5V1nB TIL that more than 1,600 people are recorded to have died from falling off the Great Pyramids of Giza in the last 200 years
rRjvo TIL Walt Disney tried to join WW1 so he can fight the Germans but was rejected because he was to young so he forged the date of birth on his birth certificate, and joined the Red Cross to become an ambulance driver.
d8xR8 TIL that Honey Bees aren't native to the US, and are wimpy pollinators compared to native bees.
w5eW TIL that the first Russian Tsar was known as “Ivan the Awesome,” but due to a mistaken translation is known as “Ivan the Terrible”