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TIL as of 2015, 19.2% of people in South Africa have HIV.

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VMn08 TIL that crows are as intelligent as a 7 year old child. They have an uncanny memory for human faces. They can hold grudges against some of us—and tell other crows about it, too.
RvJj TIL Steve Wozniak used to submit Tetris high scores to Nintendo Power magazine, and even started sending them under an alias when they refused to publish anymore of his high scores
Zv9v TIL that during Christmas deliveries, Santa consumes enough cookies to supply him, calorically, for approximately 59,000 years.
J1JNm TIL that the NCAA was originally founded to protect college athletes from the brutality of early college football. In 1904 alone, there were 159 serious injuries and 18 deaths on the field.
awM4L TIL that in 2006 after a man shot 10 Amish children then committed suicide, the Amish went to the his family to offer them support. They also set up a charitable fund for his family and during the shooter's funeral they surrounded the family to provide them privacy from the media.