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TIL one of the leaked emails from the Sony hack in 2014 spilled the beans on Charlie Sheen being HIV positive - it’s been hiding in plain sight on WikiLeaks since April

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pYO8Z TIL in 1962 Brendon Grimshaw bought Moyenne Island in Seychelles for £8k. He planted 16k trees on the island and bred giant Aldabra tortoises. He was the sole inhabitant of the island until his death in 2012. Instead of selling it for $50m, it was declared a national park is the world's smallest.
4oPa TIL Dogs can see sadness in humans and often attempt to make their owners happy by initiating cuddling.
7orX TIL that the Parliament of Rwanda is the only governing body in the world where women outnumber men
BkXK TIL After hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Memorial Medical Centre was left with no power, no running water, and the temperatures inside above 100℉. The caregivers chose to hasten the deaths of some patients by injecting them with lethal doses of morphine.
Gj14 TIL the average color of light in the universe is a shade of beige dubbed “Cosmic Latte”