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TIL, that already 5 people are cured from HIV 💪🏽
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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)
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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
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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.
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TIL IBM bragged in 1952 that each of their computers were equivalent to having 150 extra engineers with slide rules
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TIL in the first test of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, the connection crashed after the first two of five characters were transmitted