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TIL A Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.

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8e6AL TIL that Christine Maggiore, founder of the HIV/AIDS denialist group Alive and Well, died of AIDS in 2008.
B68D TIL a West African prince was enslaved in 1788, brought to the U.S., and freed 40 yrs later as per the request of the Sultan of Morocco
xkN1 TIL a nutrition professor went on a 10-week long diet of mostly Twinkies, Nutty bars, Powdered donuts, Doritos, Oreos, and sugary cereals. He lost 27 lbs, his cholesterol markers improved, and his bodyfat dropped by 10%.
v1vZ4 TIL that cocktails such as Rum and Coke and Jack and Coke, use Coke, not Pepsi, because of the popularity of a song called “Rum and Coca-Cola.” Pepsi offered to pay to rename the song, but was outbid. It became the second-highest grossing song of the 1940s, behind "White Christmas."
E1OWX TIL Due to intense metabolic demands of flight which in turn cause constant high levels of inflammation, bats have evolved ways to dampen their immune response towards the inflammation and this explains their ability to carry and transmit some of the world’s deadliest zoonotic viruses.