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TIL sci-fi author Issac Asimov contracted HIV in 1983 through a blood transfusion.

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MejJ7 TIL that Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor of Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat movies, is a legal citizen of Japan, America, Russia, and is fluent in English, Japanese, Spanish, Hawaiian, and Korean.
P1YOe TIL of "Unit 731", a secret Japanese research facility disguised as a water treatment plant during WWII. Responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes ever committed, researchers captured by the USA were secretly given immunity in exchange for the data gathered from their human experiments.
bygZ TIL: Sea Star Wasting Syndrome is wiping out star fish all along the Pacific Coast. Lesions first appear, followed by fragmentation of the body, then death. Can be rapid, killing the animal within days.
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