For decades, we've known that a French-Canadian flight attendant named Gaetan Dugas was Patient Zero; the person who first brought HIV/AIDS to the United States. And, all along, we've been wrong. As the author of a new study explains, "This individual was simply one of thousands infected before HIV/AIDS was recognized." So how could we be so wrong for so long? It turns out that it all started with a typo. "Through a labeling error on Dugas's case file, Patient O (the letter) became Patient 0 (zero)." And this all happened before the days of autocorrect errors and Internet memes; before wrongness really had a platform where it could live up to its full potential.

For years, the big soda companies fought the keep consumers from finding out just how bad sugar is for your health. Now, we're starting to get the message. So that must be trouble for big soda, right? Maybe not. Here's Bloomberg on how Coca-Cola is working to make war on sugar a profitable venture.

"He told me to take my wife out on a date or buy my kids something. It is a day I truly regret and a decision that has changed my entire life." In Bakersfield, dozens of criminal prosecutions are at risk because a couple of corrupt cops took cash from drug dealers. This is a familiar story, and another example of the broken war on drugs.

+ Vice with a look at who's bankrolling the fight against legal marijuana.

"Although we still use the term adolescence, its cultural signals are mostly irrelevant. It no longer describes the period of training required to function as an adult in the 21st century, nor does it distinguish the boundary between the knowledge of children from those who have reached puberty." In Aeon. Paula Fass provides a very interesting look at how several historic forces -- including the emergence of the Internet -- have led to the end of adolescence. (The irony is that the t-shirted people who build most of our consumer Internet tools live in a world where adolescence never ends.)

"Even before we get to day one, we've got two years' worth of material already lined up." If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, but the GOP holds the House, we all better get ready for years of investigations.

+ "Her decades of experience come with a cost: the accumulated grievances of many political opponents and a large percentage of voters who hold unfavorable views about her. These are nearly impossible to change." Ryan Lizza on Hillary Clinton's Mandate Problem.

+ "Michael Jackson, Johnny Carson and Liberace all lived in the building. Trump SoHo co-developer Felix Sater worked on the 24th floor after going to prison a decade earlier for stabbing a man in the face with a broken margarita glass. Joseph Weichselbaum, whose helicopter company flew high rollers to Trump casinos, lived here after serving time for cocaine trafficking. Paul Manafort, who quit as Trump's campaign chairman amid controversy over his work for Ukraine's ousted president, owns a condo on the 43rd floor." Bloomberg takes you inside Trump Tower: The Skyscraper where Donald is Already King.

+ Meanwhile, Donald Trump seems to have adopted a new campaign strategy: Promoting his hotels.

"When striking up new connections, people are either tight-knitters, compartmentalizers, or samplers." From Quartz: An Ivy League professor says there are only three types of friendships we make. I agree that there are three types, but my labels are: People you went to Kindergarten with, people with whom your spouse makes you socialize, and subscribers.

"For decades, the military and the VA have repeatedly turned to one man to guide decisions on whether Agent Orange harmed vets in Vietnam and elsewhere. His reliable answer: No." From ProPublica: Dr. Orange: The Secret Nemesis of Sick Vets.

"I'll never be at 100 percent again, but that won't stop me from living this." Patton Oswalt on the brutal six months since his wife died, and why he had to return to standup.

"On Wednesday, Sharbat Gula was jailed in Pakistan on charges of falsifying her identity papers." You probably don't recognize that name. But I guarantee you'll recognize the face.

Gingrich got Newtered during a heated interview with Megyn Kelly in which he demanded that she describe Bill Clinton as a sexual predator. He then insisted that she was "fascinated by sex." To which Kelly responded: "You know what, Mr. Speaker, I'm not fascinated by sex. But I am fascinated by the protection of women." Only Newt could get someone to say, "I'm not fascinated by sex" and — at that moment — totally mean it.

+ "This is my dad lecturing us on the meaning of social media." Every parent gets ridiculed on social media. Even when that parent is the president.

+ NPR: Italian Intellectuals Appeal To UNESCO For Help With 'Siege' By McDonald's. (Wait until they get a taste of breakfast all day.)

+ "We introverts have to find other ways to recharge besides authenticating documents. One of my favorite ways is to eat my roommate's food from our fridge, even though he has repeatedly asked me not to do so." From The New Yorker: I'm Not An A**hole. I'm An Introvert