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TIL that AIDS was initially called GRID - Gay Related Immune Deficiency. It was changed to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome once it was clear that the disease was not confined to the gay community.

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oRlx7 TIL that The post-war Japanese constitution has forbidden Japan from having an army.
Meke8 TIL in one of Robin William’s last films, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, his character Henry stated that his tombstone would read "1951-2014”. Coincidentally, Robin Williams was born in 1951, and died in 2014.
Z84na TIL: Canada has its own particular version of The Onion called “The Beaverton”
GYQWE TIL that the tallest person in recorded history was Robert Wadlow, who was 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) tall and apparently still growing at the time of his death at 22 years of age.
Z869B TIL Beauty and the Beast was one of the first feature-length animated films to use CGI, prominently exhibited in the background and sweeping camera of the ballroom sequence. The ballroom's dimensions read 72ft high, 184ft long and 126ft wide, with 28 windows and a dome that measures 86 by 61 feet.