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TIL that some people refuse to believe that HIV causes AIDS, including a woman who’s three year old daughter later died from the disease due to never having had treatment

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1aMJ7 TIL Through 1970 to 1971 TV networks cancelled some of their most popular and profitable shows including Green Acres, Lassie, Hee-Haw and The Beverly Hillbillies in what is often referred to as The Rural Purge.
oBr18 TIL the last time the United States officially declared war was in 1942.
obgY TIL of Henry Cavendish, a reclusive British scientist whose contributions to the physical sciences, including experiments with gases, electricity and heat were vast. He often fled from social contact or simply communicated through notes. Due to his shyness he rarely informed others of his results
DBRg TIL that the US has a greater percentage of its population locked up than any other country in the World, and it costs the US almost $600 Billion a year annually.
oakE TIL that US election day is always held on a Tuesday because in 1845 farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Farmers would leave Monday, vote on Tuesday and be back in time for market day, which was on Wednesday.