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TIL scientists have traced the start of AIDS to 1908… Despite most people only becoming aware of it in the 1980’s

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7LWx TIL Andy Warhol was shot and seriously wounded by a radical feminist, who spent only 3 years in prison for the crime.
wLrJ7 TIL that there was a Muslim slave revolt in Salvador during Ramadan in 1835
OWQY TIL That in 1957, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond spoke for a record 24 hours 18 minutes to filibuster the passage of a civil rights bill. He took steam baths daily to dehydrate his body so he would not have to stop speaking to use the bathroom.
b9l1Q TIL of the 1948 Donora Death Fog, where a thick toxic smog sickened 7000 people and killed 20 in Donora, PA. The smog originated from a U.S. Steel plant, but they never accepted responsibility.
7Mer TIL When Brian De Palma was forced to recut ‘Scarface’ to achieve a rating of R instead of X, he argued that the changes were so minor that no one would notice if he released the X-Rated version anyway. So that’s exactly what he did, and he was right: no one noticed.