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TIL Princess Diana was the first prominent public figure in the UK to be pictured holding the hand of a person with AIDS in his hospital bed, an action which helped to change perceptions on AIDS victims.

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E1pbX TIL a group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope
xVwPB TIL of a bad ass female Pirate. Zheng Yi Sao Commanded 400 ships, 60,000 Pirates, and fought the East India Trading Company. She raided with the Black Flag Fleet Numerous villages, settlements, and towns fell victim to the rampaging pirates.
GYW8N TIL Kansas City blatantly ignored The Prohibition. You could buy booze a few blocks down from the police station. They got away with it scot-free for all 13 years (1920 to 1933).
P47E TIL Nikola Tesla was born during a fierce lightning storm. According to family legend, midway through the birth, the midwife wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said, to which his mother replied: “No. He will be a child of light.”
DQPwP TIL that there is a history of soap being made from human corpses