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TIL The average life expectancy for a white, gay, HIV positive man is 89. They are, statistically, the longest-living demographic of individuals in the U.S.

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0wRaL TIL that in Brazil, you are not generally expected to be on time to social engagements, unless someone specifies “English Time”. Outside of Western Europe, US, Japan, and Korea, punctuality largely does not have high importance.
JNvV TIL Tony Hawken, 57, former maths teacher divorced Britain’s wealthiest woman entrepreneur worth £1.1 BILLION because he doesn’t like being rich and prefers to eat in Wetherspoon’
ep4Zn TIL: That many events in the life of Krusty The Clown parallel those of comedian Jerry Lewis, including his Jewish background, addiction to Percodan, hosting of telethons and appearance in an adaptation of The Jazz Singer.
yQle TIL That teen pregnancy rates are actually at their lowest since the 1970s.
pxX8 TIL that on 23 August 1989, around 2 million people joined hands in a human chain that stretched 600 kilometres across the 3 Baltic countries, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. They did this to protest their countries forced inclusion in the Soviet Union.