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TIL Jim Jones was an advocate for racial equality, racially integrating his church in the 1950s and working with civil rights leaders, before leading over 900 of his followers to their deaths in the Jonestown massacre.

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VMVmB TIL about Alice Ball, an African American woman who, in 1915, at the age of 23 revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, by creating an soluble & injectable treatment from chaulmoogra oil.
j6Ryp TIL BBC News 24 mistakenly interviewed Guy Goma, a job applicant, instead of technology journalist Guy Kewney. The incident became a famous BBC blooper.
xVv45 TIL of Season Shot - a Shotgun shell containing spices and seasoning that seasons a duck on impact.
XEXpk TIL BCG (a bacteria) can be used as treatment for bladder cancer, effective trading one malady for another.
OvDX TIL the Geneva Conventions prohibit the wearing of fake insignia, but the law makes no mention on the complete absence of insignia. As a result, the alleged Russian soldiers wearing no insignia while fighting in Ukraine in 2014 were exempt from the Geneva Conventions.