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TIL, that already 5 people are cured from HIV 💪🏽

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nWLVW TIL that the total value of all the gold owned in the world is only slightly less than the total value of all stocks ($18 trillion vs $22 trillion, respectively)
dD7gE TIL the 300 Club at the South Pole involves a tradition where participants go from a +200°F sauna to the -100°F outside, often running a lap around the South Pole marker while wearing only boots
86PL TIL police are using technology involving compressed-air launchers fitted into the grills of patrol cars. They fire GPS-trackable devices that stick to vehicles being pursued.
kO1k1 TIL IBM bragged in 1952 that each of their computers were equivalent to having 150 extra engineers with slide rules
ADvX7 TIL in the first test of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, the connection crashed after the first two of five characters were transmitted