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TIL there were 53 extras in the 1993 film Philadelphia with AIDS or were HIV positive, and 43 of them had died by the end of 1994. During his Golden Globe acceptance speech for Best Actor, Tom Hanks paid tribute to the courage and humanity of one extra named Mark Sorensen.

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j6NPE TIL repeat dui offenders in Ohio get yellow license plates
P1E9J TIL The first known case of mastitis (inflammation of the breast) dates back to the 5th century BCE. The specific case was when Empress Atossa of Persia had a mass successful exercised from her breast by the Greek slave Democedes.
d89A9 TIL Daylight Savings began today
YPKZ TIL: At age 4, U.S woman’s soccer star Abby Wambach was transferred from the girls’ to the boys’ team after scoring 27 goals in three games.
neL19 TIL that Mike Tyson knocked out another kid for ripping the head off of a pigeon. Tyson had grown up with nothing & found that feeding and spending time with them was an honour & got him away from all the bullying he had endured. To this day he still loves & has his own collection of racing pigeons.