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TIL President Bush’s AIDS initiative has saved over a million people’s lives.

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8eJEL TIL Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira attempted to create an ideal human being through her daughter, Hildegart. Hildegart read at 2, spoke 4 languages at 8, joined law school at 13, becoming professor there at 18. Her mother killed her when she tried to run away.
QNdmL TIL Three's Company theme song was written by the same man who wrote the Sesame Street theme.
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RML6 TIL that the founder of Mitsubishi was an actual Samurai.