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TIL 16 year old Ryan White contracted AIDS through a tainted blood transfusion and was denied access to his school. The ensuing lawsuit made national headlines, and his case is widely credited with bringing about AIDS awareness and education.

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jYMp TIL the swiss city of Basel has a special team of garbage detectives tasked with finding and fining people that dumped their trash illegally.
VMD1k TIL — About 2,700 employees of 501(c)(3) nonprofits received annual compensation of more than $1 million in 2014, almost one-third more than in 2011. The study, conducted by the Wall Street Journal, analyzed IRS Form 990 Returns for nearly 100,000 organizations.
dwDd TIL the award for 10 consecutive kills with a shotgun in Halo 3 was titled “Cheneymania!” before it was changed to “Open Season!”
aJAM TIL the Curiosity sang “Happy Birthday” to itself on Mars to commemorate one year on the Martian surface
Qbla TIL the words “something” and “nothing” were Elzabethan slang for “penis” and “vagina,” respectively. Thus, the title of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is actually a dirty pun