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TIL Isaac Asimov died from HIV contracted from a blood transfusion

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Evvx TIL Englishman Frank Bickerton fought in both world wars, was drafted into 2 Antarctic expeditions, developed a golf course, was the hero of a novel, killed bears, wrote major motion pictures, treasure hunted in Costa Rica & married an earl’s granddaughter
BrPZL TIL of Ida Wood, who lived 24 years with her sister in a hotel room in NYC without leaving the room and any contact to the outside world
R7Wd1 TIL a Colombian Mayor in the 90s reduced traffic fatalities by more than 50% by hiring hundreds of mimes to mock traffic violators
kOw84 TIL of John Stevens Henslow, a British priest, botanist and geologist, who, in 1831, was offered a place aboard a voyage to survey South America. After his wife dissuaded him from accepting, Henslow wrote to the captain, telling him to offer his place on the HMS Beagle to his protégé, Charles Darwin
kGW7 TIL a 20-year old anonymous British man from Birmingham dresses up as Spider Man in the night to help homeless people - by buying them food from the supermarket.