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TIL Hard rock legends AC/DC started out as a glam-rock act

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1bEX TIL that Black gay men in America have the highest HIV rates in the developed world, and that by the age of 40, there is a 60% chance that they are infected with the virus.
e0VpL TIL about "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management," an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, published in 1861. It recommends boiling pasta for an hour and forty-five minutes and states that potatoes are "suspicious; a great many are narcotic, and many are deleterious."
ADo57 TIL about the "Kentucky Meat Shower," an incident in 1876 wherein chunks of meat fell from the sky, sparking lots of wild theories about how it happened. To this day, there's no 100% certain explanation
9YZd6 TIL A Czech nuclear power plant held a bikini contest to choose new interns, sidestepping the normal way of vetting candidates by going off of their knowledge of nuclear physics.
X0ZK8 TIL that electrons are particules & waves at the same time! Search for particule-wave duality for De Brogile for more info..