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TIL Typhoid Mary refused to wash her hands when preparing meals because she insisted on not having typhoid, even though almost all families she cooked for contracted the disease.

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oBXwA TIL that the world’s oldest surviving melody is over 3400 years old, and we get to hear what it sounded like
4XN0w TIL: Elton John was inspired by Ryan White to get sober and fight AIDS. White contracted HIV at 13 through a contaminated blood treatment. He was expelled from school and suffered discrimination. He educated the public and raised awareness for HIV/AIDS until his death, age 18, in 1990.
jNeMn TIL Black Sabbath's debut album in 1970 began with the sound of rain and a distant church bell. 43 years later, in 2013, their final album ended with the sound of rain and a distant church bell.
JMb1 TIL Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of current embattled Syrian president, flaunted to Thomas Freidman that he killed 38,000 people in the 1982 Hama Massacre. He currently lives in the UK, and since there was no War Crimes Tribunal three decades ago, and the Statute of Limitations, he cannot be prosecuted.
9YyaQ TIL that computerized software that can read lips from video footage has allowed reconstruction of the dialogue in Eva Braun's silent home movies of Hitler at the Berghof.