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TIL that Nancy Reagan officially refused to help superstar actor and personal friend Rock Hudson receive AIDS treatment in France

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7VMP TIL that there is a garden in England devoted entirely to plants that can kill. The creator, the Duchess of Northumberland, felt that people ‘would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be’.
lxpG TIL that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s dvd was designed to look like a bootleg since the main character is a hacker. Netflix was flooded with complaints from people that thought they’d been sent pirated copies.
K0oB TIL Canada keeps out immigrants infected with HIV/AIDs, one of the most restrictive policies of major Western nations.
VMgrG TIL The glass of a beer bottle is brown or green to reduce spoilage from light, especially UV.
E1rmd TIL that MIT engineers have created a robotic, snake-like thread that can navigate through narrow blood vessels in the brain, promising treatment for strokes and other blockages.