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TIL about an Australian man who was legally dead for 14 minutes, but came back to life to win the lottery twice.

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glwX TIL that between 2003 and 2008, the US government spent over $15,000,000,000 on AIDS prevention in Africa, saving an estimated 1.1 million lives and reducing AIDS infection rates by 10%
4XPmN TIL that ‘spontaneous human combustion’ has been recorded to have happened several times in history.
4XvbN TIL that a 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to code and paid the $87 fee for his permit out of their own pockets.
xWLw TIL Billionare Warren Buffet resides in a 6000 sqaure-foot home located in Omaha, Nebraska that he purchased in 1958 for $31,500 (roughly $250,000 present-day).
R5N96 Til there is increasing evidence in favor of protective effects of coffee consumption in development and progression of liver disease