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TIL about Ruth Corker Burks. In the darkest hour of the AIDS epidemic, she cared for hundreds of people whose families had refused to claim them.

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4XgvJ TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges
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