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TIL A group of female prostitues in Nairobi have become resistant to AIDS

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XEBDQ TIL Steve Martin leaked his own rider, which includes a roasted chicken to use as a dancing puppet, a pair of swim trunks in case there is a pool onstage, and a booklet called "How to Make Money From the Banjo". (The booklet must be more than two pages long.)
e07WE TIL: It's a common response, due to fight-or-flight, for children to hide during house fires. Since they cannot "fight" the danger their natural response is to hide from it.
Y7GQB TIL that in 1923, a jockey died mid-race but his horse still won the competition.
mx1pP TIL that Percy Bysshe Shelley, famous romantic poet and husband of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, was expelled from Oxford in 1811 due to his publication and distribution of the pamphlet called "The Necessity of Atheism".
0wVYA TIL about 'Gegenschein', a very faint glow in the night sky exactly opposite of the Sun, caused by the backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust.