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TIL there is a functional cure and vaccine for HIV ready for human trials. It is thousands of times more effective than traditional vaccines.

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jNrwa TIL Vikings actually arrived in Greenland at least 100 years earlier than the Inuit, who now make up about 90% of Greenland's population
oB9gR TIL that Russia was founded by a group of Scandinavian vikings and traders, called the Rus, who initially set up trading towns between their home and the Byzantine Empire.
9YrO6 TIL the Nokia ringtone is taken from a classical guitar piece called 'Gran Val' by Francisco Tarrega
wokno TIL that Slash, guitarist of Guns N' Roses, helped fund the dinosaur exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (see "project funding")
9gxM TIL Ben Franklin’s brother would not print any of 16-year-old Ben’s letters at the newspaper he published, so Ben invented a pseudonym, the widow Mrs. Silence Dogood. Readers thought she was a charming woman and several offered to marry her.