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TIL Nelson Mandela lost his son to the AIDS epidemic and personally wrote checks to help fund the cost of treatment for AIDS patients

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neQlP TIL that the Montezuma Castle National Monument in Arizona was named by white settlers who assumed the Aztecs were responsible for all archeological sites but it turns out the monument has nothing to do with Montezuma or the Aztecs and yet no one bothered to rename it.
JYQRj TIL that when a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies.
X0wmk TIL that the Nanga Parbat is the only mountain taller than 8000 meters, whose maiden summit was done solo. The climber, Hermann Buhl, did so by taking methamphetamine and reaching the summit after a 19 hour long climb from his camp.
E7W0 TIL Dung beetle is the strongest creature in the world.It can pull 1,141 times their own body weight.
jNBZN TIL that the wife of Japanese fighter pilot Hajime Fujii drowned herself and their two daughters in 1944. She wanted to unburden him of his fatherly duties so he could focus on his military obligations.