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TIL as of 2015, 19.2% of people in South Africa have HIV.
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TIL while touring the battlefield Abraham Lincoln mounted a parapet to see the battle in progress. A soldier taking cover right next to him saw Lincoln exposing himself at risk and said "Get down you damn fool!" The soldier was none other than future supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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TIL: Disabled people are still being subjected to shock therapy torture in the United States in Mass
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TIL that New Jersey and Rhode Island are the only 2 US states where you will not face criminal prosecution for incest
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TIL: "Wolf Tree" is the term used to describe trees that were not cut down during deforestation and left to grow in the new growth forests of New England.
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TIL that on March 13th, 2007, the New Mexico House of Representatives passed a resolution stating that Pluto will always be considered a planet while in New Mexican skies. The Illinois Senate passed a similar resolution in 2009.