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TIL: descendants of survivors of the Bubonic plague may be immune to the HIV virus.

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ZK1v TIL there’s a DNA test that can identify a criminal’s race, but police refuse to use it
gbLb TIL that Kim Jong Il wanted to create North Korean version of Hollywood and KIDNAPPED South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and his wife in 1978 and forced them to make seven movies for the regime. The couple escaped in Vienna during a film festival.
d8Zdr TIL of the SS Pacific, a trans-Atlantic steamer that disappeared on a routine voyage between Liverpool and New York in 1856. In 1861, a message in a bottle released by a doomed passenger describing the ship sinking due to icebergs washed ashore in the Hebrides- solving the mystery.
E1oVw TIL that Westerns were once so popular, that by 1959 there were 30 Western TV shows airing on US television, even though there were only 3 real channels.
nWeR7 TIL I learned George Harrison was Hindu, and his ashes were spread on the Ganges