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TIL that 16% Lithuanian people are HIV resistant.

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nWrVo TIL that in the 1970s a person died due to gas in their colon exploded during colonoscopy with electrocautery. Colonic gas explosion is very rare these days, due to better bowel preparation (see the first citation for the fatal case study).
D1LNg TIL that Lance Henriksen best known for playing Bishop Weyland in the Alien franchise has only a 1st grade formal education. Joined the US Navy at just 15 years old.
EQeW TIL that in Cambodia and many other southeastern Asian countries gasoline is sold in 2 liter coke bottles and liquor bottles by small street-side vendors.
Ar7x TIL that if fraud were a country, it’d have the fifth largest economy in the world.
aemM TIL the word “apple” was originally used for any fruit. The word “fruit” only showed up much later.