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TIL that famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev escaped Soviet Russia to freedom only to be diagnosed with AIDS a few years later, he swore to fight the disease defiantly: "AIDS is not going to fuck me, I'm going to fuck AIDS.”

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