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TIL that the PEPFAR program, started by Pres. Bush, is credited with saving the lives of 17 million people living with HIV

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jb0Q TIL “Suicide is Painless” the M.A.S.H theme song, was written by the movie director’s 15 year old son and intended it to be “stupidest song ever written”, he has earned more than 1 million dollars while his dad only made 70K total.
neojY TIL that the Chi-Chi's restaurant chain was hit with the largest hepatitis A outbreak in U.S. history, with at least four deaths and 660 other victims a month after filing for bankruptcy
4XKDg TIL that Julius Caesar was captured by pirates and negotiated his own ransom up. From time to time he would threaten to have them all crucified. After the ransom was paid and Caesar went free, Caesar managed to raise a naval force despite holding no office, capturing the pirates and crucified them.
kbNg TIL only two percent of the fissile material in Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, actually detonated. In other words, seven-tenths of a gram of Uranium-235 leveled a two-mile radius of the city.
Ey5P TIL not only are there radar detectors, but radar detector-detectors, and even radar detector-detector-detectors