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TIL HIV is reported cured in two patients both of whom benefited from bone marrow transplant procedures that were actually intended for treating cancer, not HIV

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yQ8El TIL: camels actually evolved in North America and migrated to the rest of the world via Bering land bridge before becoming extinct in the Americas. They also didn't have humps and were about the size of a beagle.
ADa4a TIL when LBJ died on January 22nd, 1973, then President Richard Nixon was the only living President, past or sitting.
wLld7 TIL About Lisa Nowak, a NASA Astronaut who in 2007 was arrested for the attempted kidnapping, assault and battery of US Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, the girlfriend of Astronaut William Oefelein, with whom Novak had been romantically involved.
YpJkx TIL prior to losing the $3 million settlement to the lady who spilled coffee and got 3rd degree burns, Mcdonald's had over 700 reports of injuries from similar incidents.
rEDx TIL that in 1946, a four year old Australian boy was flown to San Francisco to receive cancer treatment. Instead, he got caught in a Manhattan Project experiment and was injected with plutonium. He died one year later.