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TIL that strawberry Fanta can be found in many Thai shrines as an offering to the spirits

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ODj1 TIL A small number of prostitutes in Majengo, a slum in Nairobi, have shown an immunity to AIDS. In the past 30 years, one prostitute named Agnes, has had unprotected sex with approximately 2,000 infected men and still shows no signs of the disease.
ZvaD TIL: The median human is 14% poorer today than they were in 2007, even though total wealth is 20% higher. In a stark reversal from the 2000-2007 period, international inequality is not only increasing but is erasing any gains made by emerging economies.
PYvBL TIL that human penis sizes are not "exceptionally large" for primates, and current findings do not support sexual selection influencing penis size.
J7LV TIL In captivity, a killer whale is usually confined to a small pool, where it spends much time at the surface and often has to swim in a circle. Consequently, the tissue in its dorsal fin doesn’t get much of a workout, and starts to atrophy (wastes away due to lack of use), and it falls over.
XEBpR TIL Usain Bolt suffers from scoliosis and has one leg slightly shorter than the other, as a result of that.