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TIL that an estimated 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV infection because they have an ancestor who survived bubonic plague (the “Black Death.”)

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epnE6 TIL That despite the fact that they'll soon be in the same conference, the Texas Longhorns have never played against the Cincinnati Bearcats in football.
jjrX TIL a 15-year-old blind kid was able to use his enhanced hearing to hack telephone systems by perfectly reproducing dial tones. He even went as far as faking calls to the SWAT team in order to have them surround the houses of his enemies.
VMY8m TIL The band Fall Out Boy apologized to college football fans after ESPN played their song “Centuries” 45 times during all three games of the 2014 College Football Playoffs.
PYomw TIL Elijah Wood, Sean Bean, and Orlando Bloom were flying out of Newark airport on September 11, 2001 and saw the world trade center in flames from the air.
yQwwa TIL there is a disease called fatal familial insomnia which completely prevents sleep. You will continue to stay awake until death and there is absolutely no way for you to sleep, even with the strongest medication out there. It can begin subtle but with time it will always end in death.