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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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kpaE TIL that photography in the Sistine Chapel has been banned since 1980 when the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) obtained exclusive rights to the paintings in return for a $4 million restoration project.
rRadM TIL if a bee colony wants a new queen they select a few larvae irrespective of gender and feed them copious amounts of Royal Jelly so that the larvae develop queen morphology.
NXvbN TIL that the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival was first built in 1971 and modeled after the Great Pyramid of Giza. The current structure is the third incarnation, built in 2000.
awAEA TIL: Isaac Newton set out the colors of the rainbow we memorize today. However, he originally didn't include orange or indigo. He only added them later because of his occult belief that there must be 7 separate colors, just like there are 7 notes in a musical scale and 7 days of the week.
LkJWd TIL the British Royal Navy allows sailors to have facial hair, but only if they can grow a "sufficiently thorough beard" within 14 days.