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TIL of the first ever man cured of HIV. Timothy Brown was living with HIV when he was diagnosed with Leukaemia. He received a blood stem cell transplant using a donor with a rare HIV resistant gene. Today he is HIV negative.

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XEb6D TIL Samsung Uses Robots Shaped Like Butts To Bend-Test Its Phones
x6kdw TIL that country singer Reba McEntire doesn't write any of her own hits.
dlb8 TIL that the Richter Scale doesn’t stop at 10.0 and that asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was equivalent in energy release to a 13.0 earthquake
6klW TIL the Bowhead whale is by far the longest living mammal in the world and has been know to live up to 211 years. Some have even been found with the tips of ivory spears still lodged in their flesh from failed attempts by whalers of the 1800’s.
BbeK TIL A woman rolled up to a store during an iPhone launch with a plan to buy out the entire store stock of iPhones and post the phones on Ebay. She bought her way to the front of the line for $800 … only to be told later about the “one phone per customer” rule.