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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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wLZlW TIL the 2012 Red Dawn remake was shot with the invading militia originally being Chinese, but was digitally altered in post-production to North Korea.
BrX4k TIL in 1975 Ingo Bethke escaped from East Germany by floating on an air mattress across the Elbe. 8 years later his brother Holger fled East Berlin by firing an arrow with a rope tied to it and zip lining accross. The two then flew their brother Egbert over the wall on a homemade ultralight in 1989.
mbBx TIL that there’s a diamond mine open to public in Arkansas that is the only diamond mine open to public. Visitors can keep whatever the gems they find . 31000 gems have been found so far since it became a state park in 1972.
7rkdX TIL Mushroom Death Suit is embroidered with thread infused with mushroom spores that grow from the body after burial. These mushrooms digest the body as it decomposes and neutralize many of the environmental contaminants found in the body—including pesticides, preservatives, and heavy metals.
Lk850 TIL in 1991 two English pranksters took credit for many of Britain's crop circles, after an investigator declared one example "impossible for human beings to make". After some refused to believe them, Bower and Chorley started adding straight lines and squares to show they weren't natural.