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TIL that in China sight impaired people are trained as masseurs so they can earn money and feel useful to society

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B9pd TIL: In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran a feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV. The piece claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and went on to state that “most heterosexuals are not at risk”.
NXXJJ TIL that the first Submarine was used in the Revolutionary War and was called “The Turtle”.
6EZPY TIL that the painter James McNeil Whistler was expelled from West Point by Robert E Lee
JYaAv TIL an Ethiopian girl was being brutally beaten by 7 men when a pride of lions chased them away. They even stayed with her until help arrived.
9YEw7 TIL of 'Heaven's Gate' (religious group), who had participated in a mass suicide of 39 of its members (a coordinated series of ritual suicides) in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.