› added 10 years ago

73

TIL a senior NYC mobster refused a hospital bloodbank transfusion after surgery in case he received African american blood, he then caught HIV from the donation of a fellow mobster’s blood who was an intravenous steriod user

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ANYod TIL Norway sends The UK a christmas tree every year to thank UK for saving Norway in WW2
loNbA TIL that in 1984, the Back to the Future production designer actually built the Hill Valley set to appear several years older than 1955 because the belief at the time was that making a period film in 1984 that was “right on in ‘55” would look “a little too new.”
WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.
MVeB TIL Cornell University modified a human embryo with a protein to glow in the dark in the first documented modification on a human embryo
nQ1P TIL In 1985 Disney released Return to OZ a sequel to The Wizard of OZ. While being more true to the original novels,it was considered not friendly for children in the beginning of the movie Dorothy is receiving electroshock therapy, one reviewer said “It’s bleak, creepy, and occasionally terrifying”