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

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awjX9 TIL that lions are a species that mate very often through the course of four days, resulting in an average of 50 copulations per day.
Rrp7 TIL when Japanese women laugh they often cover their mouths with their hand. This comes from an old Buddhist notion that showing bone is unclean.
E1OYV TIL during WWII US Navy seamen would drain the fuel from torpedos (180-proof grain alcohol) then filter it though bread to make a cocktail called torpedo juice.
ARkw TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
OolGa TIL that London is farther north than Calgary, Montreal is south of Paris, and despite being 20° further north, Reykjavik’s average temperature in January is warmer than Boston’s average temperature. The reason for milder European climates than equivalent cities in North America is the Gulf Stream.