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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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e0mMD TIL Michael Jackson tried buying Marvel Comics in the 90s because he wanted to play Spiderman in a movie.
6954Y TIL that the caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification.
E1QX TIL that on August 12, 1950, the Catholic Church accepted that the theory of evolution was a valid scientific inquiry.
KWaJ TIL Men’s skin is about 25% thicker than women’s because of testosterone, and has more collagen.
Nnb1 TIL When the Kurds revolted against British rule in the 1920’s, Winston Churchill said; “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilized tribes… it would spread a lively terror.” Decades later, Saddam Hussein did what Churchill advocated (Poison Gas Attack on Halabja, 1988).