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TIL that the drug cocktail that allows AIDs patients to survive came along just months after Freddie Mercury died.

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6EO5Q TIL in the early 1800s, tourists visiting Plymouth Rock were provided a hammer so that they could take a piece of the rock as a souvenir. By 1880, what was left of the rock was fenced off.
epDG5 TIL Mars is known as the "Red Planet" due to iron oxide, or rust, on its surface. It has a thin atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide covered in canyons, volcanoes, and desert. Scientists believe Mars may have had liquid water on its surface in the past, making it a target for space exploration.
kLN5 TIL when a 7ft NBA player named Reggie Harding attempted to rob a Detroit gas station with a mask, the attendant said “I know it’s you, Reggie.”, to which he replied “No, man, it ain’t me”
X096E TIL the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) baseball team once had a 228-game losing streak lasting from 2003 to 2013.
4Xwjg TIL a science kit called Atomic Energy Lab which included samples of radioactive elements was sold as a kids toy in 1950